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boats, boatmen and their charges, Perhaps some of 
the boatmen may be willing to take in lodgers. 
“There are so many rocks, reefs and ledges round the 
coast, and the tide runs so strongly, that it would be very 
unwise for the angler to go far from shore without 
a companion who knows the neighbourhood, for the sea 
has a nasty knack of suddenly becoming very rough and 
turbulent, apparently without reason; but with a good 
boat and careful boatman there is no cause for anxiety. 
“Whiffing and railing, one catches mackerel and pollack, 
the latter up to 15 or 20 lbs. I also caught a gurnard 
whiffing. Bottom-fishing is good; anywhere in Crow 
Sound bream, chad, pollack, gurnard, wrasse, and dog- 
fish can be caught on the bottom. About 14 to 5 miles 
from Old Town Bay is good conger ground ; this summer 
I caught ling to 26 lbs., ray 14 lbs., sharks and dogfish 
on this ground. Round the Eastern Islands one is sure 
to get good pollack. Off Seven Stones is good pollack- 
ing, while to the westward, from St. Agnes round Annett, 
especially round the Ruddy Rock and the Renneys, good 
pollack are found. The angler should spare a few 
minutes when so near Annett to pay it a visit, for it is the 
breeding-ground of gulls, puffins, and other fowl, and the 
burrows of the puffin are well worth examining. But the 
great desire of every angler is to go to Pol, about ten 
miles west from St. Mary’sand three from the Bishop Light- 
house. With a good boat, a good crew, and a stomach 
able to bear the swell, and the tide dead neap, you are sure 
to have sport—conger of 60 lbs., cod 30 lbs. ling 4o lbs., 
turbot 14 lbs., sharks and dogfish innumerable ; no small 
fish, the hooks and baits being too large for them.  Fish- 
ing in fifty fathoms with a sinker of from 4 to 7 lbs. and 
a line as thick as a lead pencil, you feel after a day at 
Pol that you never knew what fishing was until then, and 
long after the fish have gone the way of their kind your 
aching limbs and back and blistered hands will remind 
you of that red-letter day. 
“‘T do not give any marks for the fishing off the Scillies, 
as you must have a boatman and he will know them. 
In conclusion, I must again express my thanks to Mr. J. 
B. Cornish and Phil Nichols, ‘Trinity Pilot of Penzance, 
for giving me particulars of the fishing marks in Mounts 
Pay, most of which I have used when fishing there. One 
