200 SEA-FISH. 
come without the seeking. Instructions are there- 
fore superfluous. 
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This, I find, concludes my remarks on the 
practical aspects of modern sea-fishing for sport, in 
writing which I have endeavoured, in view of the fact 
that more than one book has appeared on the subject 
in recent times, to bring my account of tackle and 
methods up to date. The topographical portions of 
the subject, the whereabouts of grounds and other 
items of local interest that bear on sport, are dealt 
with at some length in the Appendix. -All said and 
done, sea-fish are caught, allowing for the difference 
of existing conditions, by methods closely resembling 
those followed in fresh water, an analogy more than 
ever apparent since light gut tackle and ground- 
baiting have come in vogue in salt water. Our 
paternoster is but an exaggeration of that used for 
pike and perch; our leger and float-tackle are 
powerful counterparts of those used for bream or 
barbel ; our whiffing is no more than the trailing 
that was formerly legitimate in the Thames and 
other waters in which it is now tabooed, a prohibi- 
tion that by the way casts no aspersion on its prac- 
tice in the sea, where the conditions are so different. 
Spinning, fly-fishing and live-baiting are ruled by the 
same general principles in sea and river, and only 
one tackle, less used by amateurs than any other, the 
chopstick, fails to find its counterpart inland. 
It will not escape notice that I have throughout 
the foregoing pages given the preference to bait- 
fishing, devoting little or no space to the “ artistic” 
use of spinners and flies. These are doubtless 
