CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



SPEAKING GENERALLY 



APOLOGIES for Sport Otter-hunting Cost of Sport- 

 Coarse Fishing Sport and Food Popularity of Sea-fishing 

 Angling Competitions -Critics of Sea-fishing Cases where 

 no Skill is Required Ways of Catching a Bass Danger and 

 Discomfort Sea-fishing in Winter Night-fishing Sea-sick- 

 ness Pier-fishing South Coast as Good as Anywhere Abroad 

 The Lessons of Failure . . . . . . . . . . p. 1 



CHAPTER II 



EARLY MEMORIES 



Lowestoft in 1880 Bournemouth Pier, 1881 Hastings in 

 the Eighties Pout-fishing in Sussex and Cornwall Original- 

 ity sometimes the Secret of Success Pier Crowds A Conger 

 caught and a Bass Lost Sport with a Stingray off Adelaide 

 Rambles among the Rocks Digging Lugworms for Bait 

 The Unregenerate Use of " Night-hooks " The Aboriginals 

 of East Sussex Small Game at Bognor Wrasse instead of 

 Mullet Littlehampton Imaginary Bass in the Arun 

 Fishing in Canals Modern Development of Bournemouth A 

 Good Bag Trouble with the Steamers Rocks in Bourne- 

 mouth Bay Dogfish Pollack Kent Ramsgate and a 

 Failure Deal and Its Competitions The Admiralty Pier and 

 Other Spots at Dover Changes at that Port Early History 

 of the British Sea Anglers' Society. . . . . . . p. 31 



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