FISHING AT HOME AND ABROAD 



many, gives excellent sport in some years, but appears to vary. It is beyond 

 the ordinary range of the bass and grey mullet, which are southern fish, 

 but has abundance of large coalfish (the northern equivalent of the pollack), 

 conger, ling and skate. Sand-eel and herring are the favourite baits, 

 but there is also good mackerel fishing and railing for coalfish with rubber 

 baits and flies. 



II. SCOTLAND AND IRELAND 



Although our knowledge of many Irish stations has been increased 

 of late years, notably by the efforts of enterprising members of the British 

 Sea Anglers' Society, it cannot be said that we possess, even now, any 

 information as to the best sea fishing in either Scotland or Ireland com- 

 parable to that which has been collated in respect of the English coast. 

 All that can be indicated, in the limited space available, is that there is 

 some rock fishing near Aberdeen, and that coalfish and pollack (saithe 

 and lythe) may be caught anywhere among the western isles. In Loch 

 Etive the writer has caught pollack and sea trout with alternate casts, 

 both on the same fly. Anglers who get as far as Scotland, however, usually 

 have salmon and trout in their thoughts, and free trout fishing within 

 easy distance is an undoubted attraction of the majority of Scotch watering 

 places. The same may, to a lesser extent perhaps, be said of Ballycastle, 

 Bundoran, Dingle, and other resorts in Ireland, though the big skate 

 and halibut of Ballycotton and other favoured stations have attracted 

 most attention, and have, among their own enthusiasts, become as famous 

 as tarpon and tuna. There is, however, no doubt that sea fishing in Ireland 

 has a great future, particularly, perhaps, in the more sheltered inlets on 

 the west side. 



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