XL ON THE MAP: AT HOME 



By F. G. AFLALO 



IT is proposed, in the two remaining chapters of this section, to give 

 a brief account of the sport to be found on different coasts, at home 

 and abroad. Some of these, with the methods characteristic of each, 

 have already been referred to, and, to save unnecessary repetition, 

 the page on which such allusion occurs will be given in brackets. 

 These notes make no claim to completeness, and are offered only 

 by way of suggestion. Some years ago Rudyard Kipling, whose affection 

 for angling deserves to be better known, suggested that the writer should 

 compile a kind of sea angling Baedeker for all the world. So ambitious 

 an essay was not to be thought of, but a very few of the gaps are filled in 

 the following pages, and those who, with intimate knowledge of particular 

 localities, find the information meagre, should remember the necessity 

 of compression. 



I. ENGLAND AND WALES 



(i) THE EAST COAST. The characteristic fishing of the north-east 

 coast, from Tweed to Humber, is from the rocks, of which some details 

 have been given above (p. 295). The Wash, with the adjacent coast- 

 line of Lincolnshire, is some of the poorest ground for the amateur in all 

 England, and even the inshore trawlers catch only small fish. In Norfolk 

 and Suffolk, matters improve, with bass fishing in summer, and cod 

 and whiting in autumn and winter, Sheringham being the northern limit 

 of bass on the east coast. Essex affords the same kind of sport, and in Kent 

 there is the additional attraction of tope and grey mullet. 



THE TWEED TO THE HUMBER. Berwick is not a famous spot for 

 sea fishing, but both here and at Alnmouth there is a little sport from 

 boats with coalfish, codling, whiting, haddock and fiatfish, the bait being 

 either herring or lugworm. At Seahouses, which lies between the two, 

 a boat may be taken to the Fame Islands, where fish run bigger. The 

 rock fishing actually begins at Cullercoats, near Newcastle, where float 

 tackle is used, ^ith lugworm for bait, but the fish run small. The coast 

 of Durham offers little sport, and the first of the Yorkshire towns, Redcar 

 and Saltburn, give sport only from the piers and boats, the autumn codling 

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