214 SEA-FISH. 
June and July: Pout and a few early silver whiting, 
plaice, and a few bream. ‘Towards the middle of July, 
bass come along with roughish weather, and two were 
taken this year on the beach at the Kemptown end. 
Mackerel also come inshore, but will not yet take the 
hook. 
August: Chief sport, mackerel-railing. 
September and October: Silver whiting. 
November and December: Silver whiting and cod. 
I have given Mr. Harland’s summary because, with 
some little variation, it applies to the entire coast between 
the Foreland and the Land’s End. With regard to the 
fishing-grounds off Brighton, Mr. Harland recommends 
two, the “New Found Out” rocks, about a mile from 
shore, and opposite Sussex Square, Kemptown, bearing 
slightly to the eastward ; and a sand ground, the best for 
plaice, also off Sussex Square, but not more than half a 
mile out. 
Seaford, to the east of Brighton, is rather famous in 
the annals of conger-fishing, and I have had better conger 
there than anywhere in the Channel east of Exmouth. 
For some information as to the fishing to be presently 
obtained off this picturesque Devon village 
with the famous trawling fleet, J am indebted to. 
Mr. A. Collingwood Lee, of Waltham Abbey, an en- 
thusiastic supporter of the B.S.A.S. since its inception, 
who has also been good enough to send me notes on 
half-a-dozen places besides. I have fished a great deal 
off Brixham myself, but not during the last few years, so 
that I shall give only Mr. Lee’s more recent experiences. 
The fishing, he says, is still as good as ever: pollack, 
bream and conger are the chief fish. Pollack of good 
size can be caught inshore, and there is deep water round 
the ‘Cod Rock,” a short distance from the harbour, near 
which is excellent broken ground for large bream. As 
all the able-bodied men of the place are engaged aboard 
the trawlers, it is necessary to get hold of one of the old, 
hands, past active work, to take you out to the grounds. 
The harbour is safe, the fishing-ground is close at hand ; 
and in rough weather there is even. fishing of a kind in 
the harbour itsclf, the baits being squid, mussel, and 
worms, all easily obtainable. Mr. Lee caught one small 
bass there on a mackerel-spinner, and was told that 
Brixham 
