224 SEA-FISH. 
abouts, as throughout the Duchy, is bold and rocky, the 
Deadman, or Dodman, being the most magnificent bluff 
for miles either way. Off this Dodman, which is, in a 
good breeze, twenty minutes’ sail west from Chapel Point, 
is some first-rate rough ground for pollack close inshore ; 
but it is uncertain some years, and the chad and squid 
are at all times a greater nuisance than on the outer 
grounds. The former may, it is true, be hooked, and a 
slab of tough chad is no bad bait for pollack. The 
squid, however, worry the hooks with impunity. Time 
after time the angler, feeling the sharp backward jerks 
that betray the presence of one of these cephalopods, 
thinks that he has at length hooked the intruder; but, 
though he may coax it almost within reach of the land- 
ing-net, only a proper “‘jigger,” made by filing the barbs 
off three conger-hooks and lashing the latter in a triangle, 
will hold them. Mevagissey Bay, properly speaking, lies 
within Chapel Point to the west and Penaer Point to the 
eastward, where it adjoins St. Austell Bay. This inshore 
water, which is usually calm, affords in the summer 
plenty of whiffing for mackerel and small pollack, and 
there is a good “sand” off Penaer for flat fish and 
guard. The best grounds, however, lie outside, and 
the following are the principal :— 
For bass—moored off the Gwingeas, or close to Chapel 
Point. For pollack—Tom Ash (off Fowey); Australia 
(west of the Gribbin); Martin Vane and Point of the 
Zone (off the Turbot Head, three miles out); Moldeser ; 
the Deadman, etc. For Whiting—Martin Vane (off the 
rocks). For Conger—just off the Blackhead, or about 
a mile off Chapel Point, opening a certain tree behind 
the Turbot Head. It would be useless to give bearings, 
as a fisherman is always employed. 
There was once on a time very good bass-fishing round 
the Gwingeas, anchoring about 100 yards east of them on 
a flowing tide, or whiffing on all sides ; and I recollect 
when I was fishing at Mevagissey for a couple of months 
in 1894, “Sarcelle,” keenest of sea-fishers, who is, I 
understand, soon to cast his hooks once more in the 
Channel, sending me glowing accounts of the bass he 
once caught there. His ‘‘ Mogador dodge,” which he 
exhorted me to try, is so good that I give a cut of it. It 
consists merely of two hooks four inches apart, the gut 
