100 SEA-FISH. 
line by a leather snood, and above it, a foot or 
more apart, are fastened two cod-hooks. The 
Coa best bait is lugworm, which is not easy 
fishing to procure at Yarmouth, but may be ob- 
ree tained from Winterton, or, by rail, from 
mouth Heacham, where William Chapman supplies 
it, or did when I was there last. The next best 
bait is the mussel, which should be tied on the hook 
with a strand of Manila fibre, else it is apt to be 
thrown off in casting out. Anglers should bear in 
mind that the action of salt water on zinc is ina 
very short time fatal to lug and ragworms, both of 
which should be kept in zooden pails. Several lines 
are usually employed by each fisherman, each being 
made fast to a cane or stick driven into the sand, 
the pull on which shows when a cod is hooked. 
Getting out the lines is the most important feature 
of this beach-fishing. Swinging the lead round 
the head is not to be recommended, as the impetus 
it imparts to a cod-hook enables the latter to inflict 
a serious wound. A stick or cane is therefore 
used, having a short spike in the top, a brass ring 
being attached to the line two feet, or a little more, 
from the lead. The ring is placed on the spike, 
and it is not difficult, with a little practice, to send 
.the lead out with such force as to carry out all the 
line, which should lie coiled on the sand. Should 
the sea be too rough at Yarmouth, there is sport in 
the river; and, when the tide does not run too 
strong, there is good cod-fishing from the pier-head 
at Gorleston. 
Some more hints on beach-fishing for cod, for 
which I am indebted to Mr. Gerald Geoghegan, 
will be found in the Appendix, under Aldeburgh. 
