THE FLOUNDER. 109 



Take the greatest care to keep your shrimps alive, 

 for which purpose two or three large bait-kettles 

 are much better than one. If the fish are really 

 feeding, you will probably get one for every shrimp, 

 barring what crabs, and possibly eels, take. The 

 shrimps must be kept in plenty of sea (not brackish) 

 water, and the kettles must be kept out of the sun as 

 much as possible. 



There are three special points to remember in 

 this style of fishing : fish fine, plumb the depth 

 very carefully, altering the position of the float as 

 the tide rises or falls, and fish with live shrimps. 

 It is quite a rare occurrence to take a flounder with 

 a dead shrimp ; yet some think that sea-fish cannot, 

 or do not, discriminate between a live bait and a 

 dead one. A live shrimp is a beautiful creature, so 

 clear in colour that you fancy you can see through 

 him ; a dead shrimp is a flabby, grey, inert mass ; 

 and flounders well know the difference. 



