TACKLE REQUIRED IN SEA-FISHING. 13 



ground-fishing, one with a sinker of one pound, and another 

 with a sinker of two pounds' weight, either of the boat-shape 

 (fig. 7, p. 42), or Kentish Rig (fig. 3, p. 38). Also a pair of 

 two-pound Mackerel leads, with two fine Whiting lines, each 

 thirty fathoms, on reels six inches by five, for convenience in 

 packing. The lines can be attached to either the Mackerel 

 plummets or ground leads and shifted at pleasure, a great con- 

 venience for tourists ; but residents have each line for its own 

 work generally much the preferable method of the two. A 

 few spare snoods, a hank of strong gut, twenty-five white tinned 

 hooks, No. 1 1, for either Pollack or Mackerel \ twenty-five 

 No. 13, for Pout, Dabs, or Flounders. (See the cut of hooks, 

 fig. 63, p. 211). Two horse-hair lines, lightly leaded, as 

 described under ' Pollack,' on reels, six inches by five, for 

 drift-fishing for either Pollack, Mackerel, or Sea-Bream, which 

 may also be used whiffing under oars, but not under sail from 

 the great risk of breakage. The two first-mentioned lines, 

 intended to answer a double purpose, should be of two strands 

 only, and marked at the required length, as described under 

 ' Mackerel.' The stock of lines &c. can always be increased 

 as the fisherman becomes familiar with his sport, which will be 

 a better course than encumbering himself with a large quantity 

 of gear which he may not require at the locality he may visit. 



THE SOUTH-WEST COAST OF ENGLAND, CHANNEL 

 ISLANDS, &c. 



In the present article I have mentioned places with which 

 I am personally familiar on portions of our coasts, where all 

 the various methods of taking fish in the British and in many 

 foreign waters, are in practice. 



Portsmouth, Reeling or sailing for Mackerel is much 

 followed by the Gosport fishermen in June, July, August* and 

 September, at the east end of the Isle of Wight, near the Nab 

 Light Ship, opposite Bembridge, which is as near to Portsmouth 

 as any luck can be expected, as it is quite an exception to take 

 any number of Mackerel closer to the shore. 



Whiting-Pout near the Buoy of the Boyne, outside South- 



