162 SEA-FISH. 
as many mackerel of a bright summer’s day as the 
most rocky coast. I have just mentioned once 
again the Cornish fishing. Let me take this oppor- 
tunity of reminding the reader that Sunday 
Poe fishing is still looked askance at in those 
in parts. Jam not presuming for one moment 
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to consider the question in its moral aspect, 
my business in this place being to talk fish and 
fishing ; but I do recommend respect of this primi- 
tive observance of the day of rest ; and if the more 
advanced thinker from town wants to lay consola- 
tion to his soul for this barbarous superstition, let 
him regard this Sunday abstinence as a wholesome 
weekly close time, enforced by the chapels, instead 
of, as in the salmon-fishing, by the conservators. I 
do not say that it is not possible to bribe the 
younger generation into piloting you to the fishing- 
grounds on Sundays ; nor is it to be denied that 
the spectacle of a calm Sunday may be, to the man 
of limited leisure, tantalising. I mercly deprecate 
interference with a local prejudice, the effects of 
which are wholly good. , 
Another very characteristic method of fishing 
Drift- from boats is the use of the drift-line. As 
lining J have already mentioned, its principle, that 
of covering as much ground as possible, is not 
far removed from that of railing, only instead of 
the boat covering the ground and dragging the bait 
after it, the anchor is dropped in the present 
instance, and the tide does the work of carrying 
out the line. 
This drift-lining is in my opinion, whether prac- 
tised with or without the rod, one of the most killing, 
and at the same time most enjoyable, of all methods, 
