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Pollack may also be caught at anchor as well as under weigh, 

 and this either with light or heavy lines. In fact it is a frequent 

 practice when fishing at bottom on rocky ground for whiting and 

 other fish, to have at least one light line overboard to pick up any 

 stray pollack that may chance to pass that way. 



The best stations for pollack fishing when brought up at an 

 anchor, are near to or rather over a shallow reef of rocks, which 

 cause a strong rippling current, where the same baits may be used 

 as in whiffling. In more quiet waters a shrimp baited by sticking 

 the hook through the middle joint next the tail, as before directed 

 for basse, will also be found a very useful plan. 



But it is not pollacks only, but also mackerel and gurnards of 

 all kinds may be caught in whiffling, as also the gar fish or sea 

 needles, the shad or alosa, and the scad or horse mackerel. Should 

 you chance to fall in with a party of mackerel you are pretty certain 

 to meet with sport, but as soon as you find you are in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the latter fish, you should accelerate the speed of 

 your boat ; and if you find them biting shyly, making a touch and 

 go affair of it, you should, as in minnow trolling increase the speed 

 of your bait, by drawing it in towards you, which is the best plan 

 of exciting their avidity, and generally a successful one. 



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