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a pastime. But amateur fishermen generally have recourse to a 

 rod and tackle from either a boat anchored near the shore or from 

 some rock on the beach. Good sport is sometimes the result ; but 

 as the size and kind of possible customers for the bait thrown out 

 is an undefinable quantity at sea, both hook and tackle are often 

 carried away by some unseen monster. 



Of fresh-water fishing" there is hardly any in Greece, except for 

 eels in some of the lakes. There are, however, excellent trout to 

 be had in the Bay of Avlona and in most of the streams of Epirus 

 which flow towards that sea. Salmon also, of an excellent quality 

 but small size, is met with there. On the whole, fishing as a sport 

 in Greek waters has still to be organised into some kind of system. 



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