92 SEA-FISH. 
further than you could throw a lead. As the shape 
of the ordinary bottle is, however, peculiarly adapted 
to getting foul of the rocks, it is advisable—and 
this applies more or less to all fishing over rocks— 
to make it fast to the line with a weaker thread, as 
the hooks can then at any rate be recovered should 
the bottle, or lead, get hopelessly “ hung up.” Large 
conger—I have killed them up to 23 Ibs.—are 
caught at night on the Cornish coast within stone’s 
throw of the rocks. As there are, however, no 
ledges that even a chamois would care to essay in 
the dark, a boat is absolutely necessary. The hand- 
line also takes the place of the rod, and indeed, 
though I once killed a conger of over 20 Ibs. on a 
stout rod, the confusion in the darkness was such 
that I shall not readily try it again. 
A Concer Hote 
