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line forward about a yard, and then allowing it to run 

 out again ; a strip of scarlet cloth, scarlet leather, a 

 small sized spoon bait (vide " Spoon Bait "), or the new 

 spinning bait (vide Spoon), will all be found more or 

 less successful, as will strips or " sneads " of other fish, 

 mud worms (for a description of which, vide " "Worms"), 

 white flies, six of which should be looped on a twelve- 

 foot trace of gimp (for the mode of making and mount- 

 ing them, vide " Plies "), and strips of salt pork rind, 

 cuttle fish, or squid. Another method which affords 

 excellent sport is to have the boat rowed or sculled 

 into a shoal, using your rod and line as in ordinary 

 fly-fishing, mounting three of the white flies before 

 alluded to on a seven-foot trace of stout salmon gut. 



Great numbers are also taken when the boat is at 

 anchor, by using any of the natural baits given above, 

 a light sinker, from six to seven feet of fine gimp, and 

 a No. 5 Limerick hook, " Trout pattern," on a foot of 

 stout round gut. Different depths should be tried to 

 find the lie of the fish, and when ascertained, the line 

 let out accordingly. Good sport may also at times be 

 had from the rocks, piers, or quay heads by using the 

 rod and line, gut trace, hook JSTo. 5 L, split duck-shot 

 for sinkers, and a float. Worms or cuttle fish are ex- 

 cellent bait for this kind of fishing. The depth will vary 

 with the locality. Mackerel in vast quantities, small 

 in size, but of excellent flavour, are caught with both 

 nets and lines in the Bosphorus, from the Sea of Mar- 

 mora to the Black Sea, and enormous shoals visit the 



