SPEAKING GENERALLY 



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what direction the wind blows. Next best to an 

 estuary is a place, like Looe or Mousehole, with 

 an island immediately opposite, for this usually 

 affords smooth water on one side or the other. 



THE PIER FISHERMAN 



Looe is doubly favoured, having both estuary 

 and island. 



To night-fishing and fishing in winter time let 

 me here add a third recantation, pier-fishing. A 

 few piers contrive, by charging a high entrance 

 or fishing fee, to exclude all but anglers from the 

 stages. On the Prince of Wales' Pier, at Dover, 

 for instance, the charge for fishing is one shilling 



