24 SOUTH-WEST COAST FISHING STATIONS. 



from a boat. It is best always at spring tides, in common with 

 Bass fishing by other methods. 



The ground for Whiting is from seven to ten miles outside 

 Plymouth, more or less according to season, and boats are gene- 

 rally to be found there. Cod, Ling, Haddock, Gurnards, Bream, 

 &c. are taken amongst them, and Pilchards and Hake at night. 

 Hake-fishing has much fallen off of late years. July, August, 

 September, and October are usually the best fishing months. 

 Bass are also taken with the fly between Drake's Island and 

 Mount Edgecumbe in the summer ; and further up the 

 harbour opposite Devonport Dockyard, near the West Mud, 

 both Mackerel and Bass, in July, August, and September. 



Shore Fishing. Fishing from shore with rod and line from 

 the following spots : Millbay Pier for Pollack and Mullet 

 Sand-Smelts at the mouth of the Mill-stream falling into the 

 east corner of Millbay, and Whiting-Pout from a boat twenty 

 yards off the pier. Whiting-Pollack may be also taken off any 

 steep rock found available. 



Millbay is a convenient place to keep a boat, as from the 

 dock wall it may be hauled in and out at a mooring. As the 

 docks are owned by a company a small charge is made of seven 

 or eight shillings per annum, which gives you the entree at all 

 times. 



Some spots have been frequented for angling from the shore 

 from time immemorial : and the favourite place of this neigh- 

 bourhood is at Devil's Point, Stonehouse, where the hard lime- 

 stone has been rendered quite smooth by the feet of successive 

 generations. The water is here deep close to the rocks ; in 

 fact, there are twenty fathoms within a short distance. It is the 

 custom to fish here for Pollack from low water until half an 

 hour after high water, but it is next to useless on the in- 

 crease of the ebb stream, as the line cannot be kept clear of the 

 rocks, owing to the set of the current on the Point. A Govern- 

 ment boat-house having been built here, the public are excluded 

 from the greater part of this stand. 



At Flat Rock, under Long Room Barracks, is another spot 

 for Pollack-angling on the flowing tide. A float is commonly 

 used here. 



