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Chine, are as follows :—Get the boat-steps on the pier 
landing stage immediately under a conspicuous red-tiled 
house on the East Cliff, and row out until right off the 
sand-heap in the middle of the Chine. 
(4) The Outer Durley—About the best, as it is 
certainly the most frequented, of the more easily reached 
rocks in the bay, this is picked up as follows :—The pier 
‘flagstaff is brought right in the centre of the patch of 
trees between the above-mentioned red-tiled house and 
the white house immediately above it, and the boat 
follows that line in a south-westerly course until ‘‘ Old 
Harry” just shuts out the extreme point of St. Alban’s 
Head, the headland beyond Swanage. On somewhat 
hazy days, this is a little difficult to make out, and it will 
then be found to answer the purpose if you open what 
appears to be about a yard of Branksea Island.’ The 
former mark is, however, the more accurate. 
(5) The Westmost Rock:—This is an outer ground, and 
will not as a rule be visited by a stranger, or without the 
means of sailing out and back, as the row would ona 
hot day be a tiring way of getting one’s fishing. This 
is quite the best ground in the bay for conger, of which 
I have here caught fair-sized examples early in the after- 
noon. It is three parts of the way to Swanage, and the 
bearings are :-—‘‘ Old Harry ” just outside Swanage Castle, 
and a tall chimney stack in Poole over the east cottage 
on the sandbanks. 
(6) The Woodbury Rocks—Another outer ground, of 
which it would be useless to give the bearings, as they 
are comprehensible only to the professionals, or to those 
who know the shore well. 
(7) The Hard Ground—For August, this is certainly 
the best all-round ground in this part of the bay; and I 
have taken in the course of a couple of hours several 
large mackerel, conger up to 7 lbs., whiting of good size, 
bream and flat fish up to 2lbs. Unfortunately, it is also 
well known to the dog-fish of the neighbourhood, and 
the catch generally includes a ‘‘nurse” of 10 or 12 lbs. 
The ground, which is a couple of miles from shore, is 
reached by getting the small Cabmen’s Shelter next the 
pier under the steeple of St. Peter’s Church (seen over 
the Gardens), and rowing S.S.W- until the outer end of 
Branksea Island comes over the first (eastmost) sand bank. 
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