222 SEA-FISH. 
5 of Looe, one of the best stations on that coast 
008 for pollack-fishing. Mr. Collingwood Lee recom- 
mends as boatmen Pengelly or either of the Toms, boats 
costing about 6s. per day, or 30s. per week. The pollack 
run to at least r2 lbs., and one of the best grounds is 
eastward from the Bell Buoy off Downderry, or on the 
‘“‘ Black hedge” to the westward. In the stormy days of 
late autumn, large pollack are taken in quite shallow 
water between the island and mainland. Pilchard bait 
for drift-lining is easily obtainable; while for whiffing, 
they use very large black or dark green artificial eels, 
which, although twice the size of those met with else- 
where, seem to answer capitally with the large pollack 
hereabouts. Occasionally, small lampreys, a very killing 
bait in these waters, can be had. To the west of the 
island generally, the water is deep and excellent for whiff- 
ing. Polperro, between Looe and Fowey, has also a 
small harbour, and is an equally good station, the fishing 
being to all intents and purposes the same as that 
obtained off the neighbouring ports. 
There is perhaps no more remarkable fact in the 
scenery of our south coast, though compara- 
tively little known even to passing yachtsmen, 
than the sudden change of character in the 
outline of the coast between Swanage and Weymouth. 
It is a sudden corner of Devon transported, side 
by side with the tamer Hampshire sandstone. It is 
isolated ; for there is none of the grandeur of the cliffs 
round Durdle Door a mile or so further west, and the 
heights round Weymouth Bay are mild to a degree. In 
the very centre of this brief spell of lofty precipice breaks 
the little cove of Lulworth. The whole population, 
which consists, East Lulworth included, of a few hun- 
dreds, is devoted to the lobster industry, the men catch- 
ing, the women boiling and packing. In the beautiful 
little cove itself, where the water is usually clear as in the 
tank of an aquarium, there is no fishing, though I have 
been told there of bass hooked at the entrance. Outside, 
however, and without much need of exact marks, there 
is good pollack-: fishing right up to the cliffs, one favourite 
anchorage being about 200 yards off Durdle Door, the 
finest natural archway on the south coast. Another good 
ground is to the eastward, where you open the top of 
Lul- 
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