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spots on the Durley and pier rocks. There remain 
a number of reefs, in all of which lurk pollack, 
though, oddly enough, they are not to be taken 
every year by railing. In 1894,1 took a number of 
good fish in this way in the month of May. Two 
years later, I tried in vain with every possible bait, 
living and dead, morning and evening, and on 
every likely spot, but never a fish I took all May 
and June. Yet the pollack were there, for as soon 
as I brought up and put out the drift-lines I took 
them, though not of great size. So, too, in 
Cornwall no method is more killing for 
the pollack in some years, while in others you may 
row to and fro in the shadow of the Deadman by 
the week and never pick up a fish worth having. 
Railing is essentially an inshore method ; five or 
ten miles from land, the drift-line will invariably 
give better results. That, at least, has been my 
experience. Thus, at Dover, there are occasionally, 
though decreasingly as the years go by, some 
heavy bags made in the long, light summer even- 
ings within a few yards of the beach, every boat: in 
the place, seaworthy or otherwise, being hastily 
called into requisition, and the pollack grcedily 
scizing anything, living or dead, that is trailed 
along-shore. Lulworth, in Dorset, is one 
of the places where I have observed the 
fishermen rail in preference to any other method ; 
and I have picked up a good pollack or two 
just without the beautiful little cove, though I 
was Icss lucky there than some. The local bait 
(and an excellent one it is) was the crab-worm, the 
pots, which are Lulworth’s staple industry, usually 
providing a sufficiency of hermit-crabs. Otherwise, 
bait there was none, there being no shop in the 
Cornwall 
Lulworth 
