SEA FISHING 

 being good at the latter resort. At Whitby also the fishing is all from boats, 

 the whiting ground being behind the Bell Buoy, and the rough ground for 

 codling lying opposite Sandsend. The boats are not anchored, but drift 

 with the tide. Mussel is the local bait for whiting, and soft crab for codling. 

 The best rock-fishing, however, is at Scarborough and Filey and on to 

 Flamborough, and the tackle and baits have already been described. 

 At Flamborough, amateurs cast with a couple of white rubber baits 

 instead of flies. The fly fishing from the Brigg is possible only in fine 

 weather, but cod are caught from the open shore even in rough seas. At 

 Bridlington, there is sheltered water for " coarse " fishing from boats, 

 but no rock fishing. 



THE WASH TO THE THAMES. With Norfolk, we come to the northern- 

 most range of the bass, a fish met with right round the south coast and 

 as far up the west side as Pwllheli. Bass are caught at Sheringham in 

 boats, with hermit-crab for bait. It is not a conspicuous fish at either 

 Cromer or Yarmouth, though known at both, but is caught every summer 

 at Aldeburgh and Felixstowe, at the former by either railing with live 

 sand-eel or artificial baits, or fishing from the beach with lugworm bait; 

 and at Felixstowe by railing, or from the pier with ragworm bait. At 

 all these resorts, there is good autumn and winter fishing for cod and 

 whiting from either the piers, beach, or boats, and lugworm is everywhere 

 the favourite bait. 



There is good bass ground in Essex. The piers at Walton and Glacton 

 give large bass in summer, with either shrimp or herring bait, and at 

 Glacton all the fishing Is done at night. There is also the usual autumn 

 fishing for codling and whiting, and this is particularly well known at 

 Maldon and Burnham, though the tides in both estuaries, and especially 

 in that of the Blackwater, run so swift that it is only possible to fish at 

 slack water. 



THE GOAST OF KENT. Though it lacks the rock fishing of Yorkshire 

 and the sheltered estuaries of Essex, Kent offers, on the whole, more 

 varied fishing than any other shire on the east coast. Bass fishing has 

 long been famous at Heme Bay (with artificial baits cast from the pier), 

 Margate (by railing with files or sand-eel on the rough ground off the 

 Ness), Ramsgate (by fishing with herring bait off the parade), and 

 Folkestone (by fishing, also with herring bait, from the beach on summer 

 nights); and there is the summer mullet fishing at Margate (p. 368), 

 and tope (p. 386) at both Margate and Heme Bay. The sport on 

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