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place, and one had recourse to the artificial bait, 
the rubber-eel, and the rest, of which, truth to tell, 
Lulworth pollack have, or had, no great opinion. 
But for this continual lack of bait, as well as the 
absence of any other than boat-fishing, I should 
place Lulworth, with its hilly, unlighted streets, its 
simple lobster-catchers, and its solitary idle police- 
man, high among the desirable spots for a fisher- 
man’s holiday. As it is, many a good day is spoilt 
by insufficiency of bait and the uncertainty of the 
somewhat costly supplies from Weymouth. 
It is undoubtedly, however, on the coasts of 
Scotland and Ireland—possibly due, as go otop 
“John Bickerdyke” says, to the fact that and Irish 
pollack and coal-fish are not in much [Sts 
demand for the market—that railing is certain to 
give the best sport ; and the catches, more particu- 
larly of the latter fish, the sillock or saithe of 
northern waters, are sometimes phenomenal. 
For mackerel-whiffing, the choice is. somewhat 
wider, but results are a little uncertain east of the 
Wight. From the Needles to the Land’s End, on 
the other hand, there are so many bays where this 
sport may be followed with the success that soon 
palls, that I hesitate to make any selection. 
Weymouth Bay is perhaps as good as any, though 
I have taken hundreds of mackerel in this 
way off Exmouth, Dawlish, and in Torbay ; mouth, 
while west of Plymouth, this “plummet- °° 
ing,” which I have already had occasion to describe, 
is regarded as a means of picking up fresh bait on 
the way out to the fishing-grounds, rather than in 
the nature of sport. In railing for mackerel, it is 
well to remember rocks are not essential as in 
pollack-fishing, and a sandy bay will produce just 
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