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The sand-eel, which is the most important 

 bait known to fishermen, is found in all parts of 

 the coasts, and may very readily be obtained. 



Whenever you are on the coast, make friends 

 with the fishermen. Boating and fishing are 

 your business there, and who can aid you so 

 well as men whose whole lives are passed in 

 those occupations? You will find much to 

 learn worth learning from these weather-beat en 

 men, and may spend a profitable hour with 

 them when their boats are pulled up on the hot 

 shingle, and the patched and many-tinted sails 

 are drying in the sun, and their owners are 

 mending their oft-mended nets, or tarring their 

 gallant luggers. Do not neglect their company, 

 if you have any care for fishing on the sea. 



For deep sea-fishing, very long lines are used 

 now. At almost any sea-coast these may be 

 obtained, all complete, wound upon a sort of 

 tabulated board; the line should be at leaat 



