SOUTH-WEST COAST FISHING STATIONS. 15 



St. Alban's a corruption of St. Aldheim, is good Pollack-fishing. 

 Eels for bait procurable in the brook. Living Shrimps much 

 used as bait. Bass also here. 



Weymouth and Portland. Between Pooleand Weymouth, 

 Mackerel, and near the rocky ground Whiting-Pollack, and 

 Pout ; and Whiting in the offing. The same in Portland 

 Roads, and the Pout are taken from the breakwater and its 

 immediate vicinity. The wreck of the old Indiaman ' Aberga- 

 venny' is also much frequented for ground fish. In Wey- 

 mouth Harbour, Eels, Sand-Smelts, and Flounders, with Bass 

 occasionally off the jetty end in rough weather. v By watching 

 your opportunity, you may frequently procure a Squid or 

 Cuttle-fish when the Mackerel seines are drawn on shore, on 

 any beaches between Portland and the Start Point. Off Chesil 

 beach, which connects Portland with the mainland, Mackerel 

 are sometimes taken in large quantities, particularly in easterly 

 winds, which make smooth water on this part of the coast. 

 Bass may be taken by a ground line thrown off the beach, 

 when there is too much sea to go afloat. In the Fleet or 

 backwater behind, running from Abbotsbury, Eels, Flounders 

 &c. abound, and Bass may be met with at the bridge. At the 

 opening in Portland Breakwater, Pollack, Pout, Bream, Congers, 

 and Sand-Smelts may be caught with rod or line, with or 

 without a boat, and sometimes Bass with spinning bait. 

 Between Portland Castle and Fleete Bridge, large Bass can be 

 taken on the grass banks with a fly, and fine Red Mullet in 

 trammels at the anchorage. 



Just outside the light of Weymouth Harbour is a rocky 

 shoal, the Mixon. Pollack are taken here, but there is better 

 fishing along the north shore on the ledges towards St. Alban's 

 Head. Close at the back of Weymouth Jetty or north pier, good 

 Bass fishing has been obtained, and angling for both Bass and 

 Pollack may here be followed. 



Bridport. Mackerel-fishing in the offing, and Bass from 

 the pier-heads, either with a ground-line or the rod ; Eels and 

 Flounders, also Whiting-Pollack on rocky ground off this 

 harbour, from which one spot receives the name of Pollack 

 stone. Whiting-Pout, called provincially Blains, and Dabs on 



