CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Introduction i 



Marks, and How to Take Them . 4 



Methods of Fishing ... 8 



The Possible Bag . . . . 10 



Shifting Leads for Sea-side 



Visitors . . . .10 



Sea-fishing and Hydrography . n 



Gear or Tackle required in Sea- 

 fishing 12 



The South- West Coast of Eng- 

 land, Channel Islands, &c. . 13 



The Whiting 31 



Ground-fishing Gear . . . 33 



Lines 47 



Barking or Tanning Lines . . 48 



Baits 48 



Drift-lines on the Whiting- 

 ground 51 



Disgorgers 53 



How to Cure Whiting . . . 53 



Drifting on the Whiting-ground . 55 



A Day's Whiting-fishing . . 55 



The Pollack or Whiting-Cole or 



Coal 60 



Drift or Tideway Fishing . . 61 



Baits 63 



How to Bait with living Sand- 



Eels . . . .63 



The Courge or Sand-Eel Basket . 66 



How to make Courges or Sand- 

 Eel Baskets . . . .67 



How to Bait with Rag- Worms . 68 



How to Bait with living Shrimps . 69 

 Horse-hair Lines, and How to 



Make Them . . . . 69 



Pipe-leads and Moulds . . 72 



To Knot the Links together . . 73 

 A Day's Drift-line Fishing off 



Guernsey . . 74 



Streaming for Pollack . . 78 



Whiffing 79 



Lines for Whiffing . . .79 



The Cornish Whiffing Line . . 81 



Baits for Whiffing, Natural and 

 Artificial . . .82, 83 



Fly-fishing at Sea, the Rod . . 86 



Use of the Gear or Tackle . . 90 



Boat and Net . . . . 91 

 Sheaf-fishing . . . .92 

 Rod-fishing for Pollack from 



Shore 93 



Floats 94 



