220 SEA-FISH. 
October and November there is an inshoring of cod, which 
are then caught from boats moored over the rocks, not 
more than a couple of hundred yards from the beach. 
The bait most used is the whelk ; and King has, or had, 
all that is necessary in the way of boats. Off Eastbourne, 
especially towards Beachy Head, there is a good deal of 
rough ground on which at times fairly good fishing is 
had for pollack and bream, as well as pout by day and 
conger of an evening. ‘There has always been much 
spinning for pollack from the pier here; but I never 
caught much myself, nor, indeed, saw any one else do 
so. It seemed, in fact, as if much of the fictitious 
excellence of this pier depended on the fact that a 
charge was made for the right of fishing; and that folks 
imagined, as they so often do, that it must be warranted 
by something particular in the sport to be obtained. I 
believe that the fishing has, curiously enough, some- 
what improved of late years. If so, this is indeed 
exceptional ! 
For the following notes on Irish coast fishing I have 
Irish to thank Sir H. W. Gore-Booth and the Rev. W. 
Coast §. Green. All around the rocky shores of the 
west there 1s good summer pollack-fishing, a large white- 
winged fly with red body generally giving good results. 
The mouth of the Kenmare River is good water. As it 
is often, however, a question in Ireland of hotel accom. 
modation, the sea-angler will not do much better than 
Waterville, where there are first-rate accommodation and 
great variety of fish. 
Another place that both correspondents recommend 
is Valentia, and, as at all other points on the Irish coast 
where there is a regular mackerel fishery, bait is not, as a 
rule, difficult to procure. East of these places, at Carth- 
townshend and Baltimore, the fishing is good, but the 
hotels cannot compare with those at Waterville. 
The india-rubber eel is coming into use among the 
coast-fishermen, who are also taking to gut snooding for 
their mackerel- -tailing. 
Mr. Green says that there is much excitement ina 
good night among the hake, but the fisherman must not 
mind anchoring well outside the headlands in the ocean 
swell. 
Good sport could also be obtained at Mullaghmore, 
