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would seem to be less educated, for I have caught them in these parts without 



difficulty. On our coast, however, they are fanciful. There is some mullet 



fishinor at the mouth of the Stour, and the smaller fish are. 



Grey Mullet. 



very regrettably, caught in hundreds in Southampton Waiter 



and other estuaries, Plj-mouth among the number ; but Littlehampton, at 



cdkni^ii i;a^> (;R0UNr) 



the mouth of the Arun, may fairly be called the headquarters of the 

 Channel amateur mullet-fishing, and there are among the residents at that 

 Sussex resort half a dozen enthusiasts, who have for years, during the three 

 months or so that the mullet are inshore, fished every fine morning from 

 the isolated structure at the end of the east works that bound the lowest 

 stretch of the tidal Arun. They use rods and paternoster tackle (an 

 arransrement in which three or more hooks are strung above the lead at 



