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tail if possible, and with the same stroke drag it under water, 

 by which means you will escape the shower of ink which they 

 almost always vomit forth at such times. 



Nearly all the barb of the hooks should be filed off, or you 

 will find it difficult to unhook them. Hooks without barbs are 

 specially made for catching Squid for the Newfoundland Cod 

 Fishery. Both in Spain and Newfoundland, Squid are taken 

 in large quantities by a jigger, made of pewter, having a dozen 

 or more hooks cast into it grapnel fashion at one end. The 

 piece of pewter is about 3^ inches long, with a hole at the 

 upper end to attach the line. In the dusk of the evening, the 

 jigger is lowered over the side of the boat, and jigged up and 

 down. It is scraped bright to attract the Squid, which embrace 

 it with their arms, and are then caught by the hooks. A 

 Spanish fisherman, some years since, took a quantity of Squid 

 in this manner at Plymouth, and it is a method which might 

 be widely introduced to procure Squid for bait. Several of 

 these jiggers were in the Exhibition of 1883. There is a 

 smaller kind also not so frequently seen, with a short rounded 

 body, known as the Sepiola or little Squid, and another the 

 Flying Squid (Ommastrephes), so called from the fact of rising 

 out of the sea and sometimes falling on the deck of a vessel. 

 A piece of Squid z\ inches long, cut tapering, is a good 

 whiffing bait for Pollack and Bass. The Squid attains a mott- 

 strous size at Newfoundland. 



THE SUCKER OR POULPE. 



(Octopus vulgaris.) 



The Sucker is the most hideous of its kind, consisting of 

 nothing but a head with eight arms and large staring eyes ; 

 they are often found under rocks and stones at low water, 

 whence they are drawn out by iron hooks, to be used as bait 

 for Conger. 



This species is much more abundant on the French side 

 of the Channel ; in Guernsey it is known under the appellation 

 of ' Pieuvre,' in Normandy as * Minaur,' and has obtained a 

 world-wide notoriety through the work of M. Victor Hugo, 

 ' The Toilers of the Sea.' It is widely spread in the seas of 



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