CHAPTER IX. 



September 



DAB FISHING OFF SHOREHAM. 



NEARLY all London anglers now look forward to 

 a day or two of sea-fishing during the late 

 autumn or early winter at some of our near-at- 

 hand South-coast watering-places. Few, how- 

 ever, have succeeded in finding any good sea-fishing in 

 the months of July or early August, save and except at 

 great distances away, such as Looe and Penzance, in 

 Cornwall, or Port Erin and Ramsay in the Isle of Man. 

 To those who can spare the time, probably these places 

 afford as much sport as anywhere in the British Isles. 

 There are numbers, however, whose only sea-fishing 

 opportunity is an odd day now and then, or " between 

 the Saturday and Monday," as the old song says. Such 

 persons, though they do not seem to be aware of the fact, 

 need not despair of September fishing if they only know 

 where to go. All round our Sussex coast, from New- 

 haven to Bognor, excellent sport can be had with bass, 

 pollack, mackerel, pouting, dabs, and small sea bream. 

 A short account of a couple of days in the neighbourhood 

 of Shoreham Harbour may be of interest to some. 



Hearing that fair sand-dabs were to be taken in this 

 neighbourhood, two of us members, of course, of the 

 British Sea Anglers' Society thought we would explore 

 this neighbourhood. Starting from London Bridge at 

 9.25 a.m., one o'clock saw us seated in the snug little 

 hostelry, partaking of our mid-day meal, having first seen 

 that our boatman had got everything in readiness for the 



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