VII 

 BASS AND MULLET 



Bass and Mullet Compared Luck of Young Fishermen 

 A Mullet Caught on Pollack-tackle Another on a Leger - 

 The Bass in Two Different Moods Night-lines Better Sport 

 on Live Bait Attractions of Fishing in Estuaries A Morn- 

 ing's Sport in the Teign Memories of that River Difficulties 

 with Buoy-chains and Weeds Trouble with other Fishermen 

 Remedies Indicated Bait Not Always Procurable The 

 Grey Mullet Its Appetities and Habits My Repeated 111 

 Luck Visit to Mr. Gomm at Margate Experts beneath 

 Margate Jetty A Day's Success Importance of Groundbait 

 A Mullet at Last Advantage of Local Guidance with 

 Mullet and Bass. 



WHAT the schnapper and black bream are to 

 the amateur fisherman of Australia, the tarpon 

 and tuna to the American, that are bass and grey 

 mullet on the coast, and particularly on the south 

 coast, of England. Luck and chance, not always 

 two words for the same factor, play their part in 

 their capture, as indeed in all kinds of fishing, 

 but, other things being equal, they are, when full- 

 grown, about the most tantalising fish in the sea. 

 Either in its first youth may be gulled by little 

 truants from school, who use " tiddler " tackle 

 from the quays of Plymouth or Southampton. 



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