FISHING AT HOME AND ABROAD 

 Only two baits have, so far, been recommended for mullet. Others, 

 however, are used with success elsewhere. In the Channel Islands, they 

 fish with shrimp, using pounded shrimps (or " chervin ") for groundbait. 

 In Italy, we used a paste made of sardines and Parmesan cheese, a small 

 piece of the latter being pinched on the float, and proving very attractive 

 by gradually crumbling in a shower round the hook. Now and then, indeed, 

 the mullet, though rarely a fish -eater, is to be caught on fish baits. I 

 heard of one case in Ireland (I fancy it was at the famous Ballycotton) ; 

 and a piece of sardine, with pounded sardines for groundbait, is invariably 

 used, with float tackle, at St Jean de Luz, near Bayonne, where I have seen 

 fine mullet caught in this way. 



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