218 SEA-FISH. 
rate station for sea-fishing, though the whiting-fishing is 
excellent in the fairway throughout the autumn months, 
There is the usual July mackerel-railing in the bay, and 
good pout-fishing on the rough ground towards Salterton, 
Mr. Hare informs me that he used to get good sport 
with the bass here a few years ago—best fish 10}]b.— 
mooring the boat off the jetty at the flood tide, and. bait- 
ing with the living sand-eel, which he had to sean at low 
water on the bar. 
I have practically fished most of the best grounds, 
Powey outside Fowey from the neighbouring village 
of Mevagissey (¢.v.), but Mr. Collingwood Lee 
sends nie some notes of the inshore-fishing. There is 
the great variety characteristic of Cornish fishing, pollack, 
sharks, dog-fish of all kinds, conger, mackerel, garfish 
(“longnoses ”), large gurnard (‘tubs ”), bream, whiting, 
pout, flat-fish, and the chance of a bass. There was 
formerly—it is somewhat deteriorated, but not altogether 
a thing of the past—good general fishing at the mouth 
of the harbour, a convenience in rough weather. Mr. 
Lee caught on one occasion a quantity of small conger 
there, running up to 5 lbs., with rod and gut line and in 
hot sunshine; on another, he was so fortunate as to 
catch a 9 lb. bass on a hand-line half way up the harbour, 
and at night. Bait—squid, mussels, pilchard, &c.—is 
easily obtained. Boats cost from 30s. to 35s. per week, 
according to size. Tomlin, either of the Pills of Polruan, 
or “ Captain” Rice can be recommended. There is good 
whiffing-ground for pollack right along the coast to 
Polperro or westward to Par Bay, and the bream- and 
whiting-grounds are some way out. 
At one time I knew Hastings and all the coast for 
_ _half-a-dozen miles either way like a book, as I 
Hastingsfshed there for part of at least a dozen 
aicirict summers in succession. It is naw, three years, 
however, since I fished there, and I have, 
therefore supplemented my _ recollections of the 
place with some hints by a resident. ‘There are two 
piers at Hastings, or, more correctly, one there and 
another about a mile to the westward, at St. Leonard’s. 
From the former, I have taken a few, a very few, 
bass, conger up to 6 or 7 lbs. weight, and pout 
by the thousand, but of small size. ‘The stone groynes 
