ce) SEA-FISH. 
the shark tribe, this fish heads straight for the 
surface on feeling the hook. The rowhound, the 
wet skin of which has the extraordinary property 
of bleaching other fish in the same basket, is also 
taken to a length of 3 or 4 feet, and is covered with 
numerous reddish spots. It is less savage in its 
behaviour than the last, but so common as to be 
a serious trouble at times. 
The dory, more familiarly “John Dory,” is one 
of the most delicious eating, and also one 
of the ugliest, fish in our waters. It lies in 
ambush in the shadow of rocks and piles, rushing 
out at intervals to gorge itself with sand-eels or 
other small fish, and the best way to catch it is on 
a drift-line baited with a whole smelt or launce. 
The action of a dory in the water—I know of no 
pier where there is a better chance of watching them 
than that at Bournemouth—is more graceful than 
the appearance of this fish on the table would lead 
one to suppose, the long filaments on the dorsal 
fin waving like fronds of weed, and possibly help- 
ing to deceive the fish. 
Dory 
The eel of our rivers may seem out of place in a 
work on the sport of sea-fishing ; and I do not 
know indeed that I should have mentioned 
it at all but for the fact that the common ecl—we 
have but one freshwater species in these islands, the 
so-called speczes being only the fish of different sex 
and age—goes down to the sea to breed, the young 
eels, or “elvers,” re-ascending the river, their parents 
dying, so far as is known, after the first spawning. 
Not only then do cels begin and end their exist- 
ence in the sea, but they may also be taken there 
Eel 
