PREFACE 
IN the following pages will be found some 
account of coast-fishing under modern conditions. 
Few sports have grown so rapidly in popularity ; 
and one result of the recent increase of sea-anglers 
has been a tendency, on the part of both makers 
and amateurs, to adapt fishing tackle to the special 
requirements of salt water to an extent not 
dreamed of a few years back. Of these improve- 
ments, not a few of which have appeared during 
the two years that have elapsed since the publica- 
tion of the last work on sea-fishing, the author has 
endeavoured to take note in the second chapter. 
It may be objected that not one-fifth of the fishes 
included in the British list are mentioned in this 
book; but sea-fishing as a sport is a question of 
methods, many kinds of fish being captured by 
each style. 
