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Of the Turlot. 



This fish lays more over on the Dutch coast ; but the 

 small ones sometimes come upon our shores, and are caught 

 while fishing for mackerel, &c. 8rc. Their favourite 

 bait is a lamprey, of which we export often full 400,000, 

 from the Thames chiefly, for the supply of the Dutch 

 fishermen, who readily pay from forty to fifty shillings 

 per thousand, entirely for turlot-laits. 



The turlats average from six, to twelve, or fourteen 

 pounds ; some grow to the weight of twenty- five, or even 

 thirty, but their flesh becomes coarse. They are also 

 caught with small pieces of fresh herrings, haddock, or 

 bullocks' liver $ but the lamprey is preferable. 



Fish for them on the banks before described, as also 

 on long, flat, shelving sands, that lay dry when the tide is 

 out, but on which it rises very fast 3 there they will be 

 found among the other flat fishes, which run in with 

 great keenness to pick up what may be exposed on the 

 sands. Your tackle of the smaller size. 



Of the Haddock. 



These generally weigh from one to four pounds, but 

 have been known up to fourteen : they are best about 

 Christmas, when in roe ; they are also very fine about 

 Midsummer. 



These fishes take a worm very readily, hanging below 

 mid- water, where it is not very deep. You may use a 

 large cork-float, as for jacks, or a bladder-float ; but in 

 so doing, you will miss many when you strike ; especially 

 if you let your float stand far from you. 



Bait with large lols, on the smaller tackle ; or you 



may 



