“188 SEA-FISH. 
An occasional conger is taken on the drift-line 
when there is sufficient out for it to reach the 
bottom ; but on the whole, the boat-shaped sinker 
with two large hooks on the snooding above 
mentioned, will be found the most reliable gear for 
this work. 
The conger is not held in much esteem for the 
table, but there is a continental method of stewing 
a slice from the neck of one weighing 5 or 6 lbs., 
which makes a more agreeable dish than the 
majority of those that figure in the second course 
at most English restaurants. 
On the capture of flat-fish, some remarks have 
been offered incidentally under the head of pier- 
fishing ; and it only remains 
Flat- to note the modifica- 
fish tions in tackle called 
for in seeking them with the 
aid of a boat on the outer 
grounds. The throw-out tackle 
there referred to is obviously 
not the correct thing in boat- 
fishing, and even the ordinary 
form of leger loses its sensi- 
tiveness when used vertically. 
I have, therefore, used, what 
I advocated ten years ago, 
the conical plummet, in place 
of the coffin-shaped leger-lead 
or bullet, stopping its pro- 
gress towards the hook in 
the same way, with a fragment 
of match on the line. The friction between line 
and lead is thus even less than in the leger 
thrown from shore, and the slightest bite can be 
ConicaL Leap. 
