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Pollack and Coalfish are found on the same grounds 

 as conger, but the coalfish is scarcer as we come south. 

 Very fine coalfish are taken off the Yorkshire coast on 

 the herring-grounds. 



Cod and Whiting, which are at their best between 

 October and Christmas, are to be caught from boats 

 wherever there is the mixture of hard and smooth 

 ground to which they are partial. There is, in autumn, 

 good cod-fishing from the piers at Folkestone, Deal, 

 Felixstowe, Clacton, and Great Yarmouth, and from 

 the shore at Lowestoft and among the wykes and scars 

 in the neighbourhood of Scarborough. 



Sharks are mostly taken in Cornwall, about ten 

 miles from the land on hot, calm summer days, and 

 the largest dogfish (topes) are found at Herne Bay, 

 in Kent, and Filey, in Yorkshire, where the Brigg, a 

 magnificent natural pier of rocks, offers undoubtedly 

 the finest shore-fishing for mackerel and pollack in 

 these islands. 



These are particular cases, and a fuller list, with 

 details, can be found in most of the manuals on the 

 sport. But, by way of general principles, there are 

 certain topographical features associated with particular 

 kinds of fish, which may, in the absence of any local 

 information to the contrary, be fairly expected to occur 

 in the neighbourhood. 



The broadest distinction is that between a rocky 

 and sandy coast. Where the foreshore is bold, with 

 cliffs and rocks, the angler may look for lythe and saithe, 



