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fish that had partaken of the poisonous food 

 that would be sickly, and the others would 

 feed; but it is a well-known fact, that when 

 they have been seen in that state not a single 

 fish would bite, and therefore it must have 

 been something in the whole of the water 

 that affected the whole of the fish ; but what 

 that has been could not be really ascertained. 

 The depth of the docks varies according to 

 the quantity of water in them ; but, generally 

 speaking, you will require for the Import and 

 Export a line from about sixteen to twenty feet, 

 and for the Timber Basin one about ten feet. 



The Blackwall Basin is deep in some places, 

 and shallow in others, so. that you must order 

 your line accordingly. If you fish here for 

 perch, you may use the live shrimp, taken in 

 the docks with a small net made for the pur- 

 pose, which is at times a very killing bait. 

 And your paternoster line may have five or six 

 hooks on it in the deep places, as spoken of 

 in the chapter of Perch-Pishing. Smelts are 

 sometimes taken here in the summer with 

 a paternoster line also, and baiting the hooks 

 with a piece of the smelt. Very fine eels, also, 

 are taken in the Timber Basin in warm 

 weather, by laying a night line baited with a 



