230 SEA-FISH 
last word, beware of the gentlemen in blue jerseys who 
haunt the quay. ‘hey will take you out in their boats 
for an exorbitant price, will cast anchor just where they 
think, and will, after a few hours, take you home again 
fishless and disgusted with the place. The only fishing 
they understand is connected with your purse, and if 
they can get a good haul they are quite satisfied with 
their day’s sport.” 
At all times a favourite and Amportant station, it must 
Ply- be admitted that the ‘fishing at Plymouth has 
mouth fallen off sadly of late years, and grounds that 
were long famous have now got quite worthless. Mr. 
Hearder has been compiling a list of up-to-date “marks” 
for local fishing, and I have persuaded him to let me 
have the use of them for this volume. They are 
certainly, if all correct (and there is no reason whatever 
to doubt their being so), about the most thorough collec- 
tion of local fishing-grounds I have ever seen together. 
I give them sertatim :-— 
(1) The Flat Rock, just inside the Mallard Buoy (good 
for pollack-whiffing on the ebb tide): Teats Hill House, 
in line with flagstaff on the corner of the emigration 
depot, and the coastguard flagstaff at Batten over the 
second chimney of the coastguard cottages. 
(2) Diamonds (pollack): The centre chimney in 
clump of five on citadel over white patch by the ladies’ 
bathing place, and the flagstaff at Batten over centre 
chimney of coastguard station. 
(3) Cobbler Deeps (pollack, or three or four boats’ 
lengths east or west for pout and whiting): Red patch of 
sand under coastguard station at Batten in line with 
white house at Turnchapel, and flagstaff on the citadel 
in line with large clump of chimneys on citadel. 
(4) Black Ball (good on flood-tide for whiting on the 
bottom, or pollack on drift-lines, and lies off Withy 
Hedge): Get the chimney of a solitary house on Staddon 
Hills over the gap at Withy Hedge, and Sherwell chapel 
Jn line with the new church. 
(5) Leek Beds (pollack): Get the corner of Bovisand 
Fort in line with the clump of furze in Bovisand field, 
and the tower of Norrington’s manure works in line with 
Gibbs’s chimney. ‘The outer end of these beds is marked 
by the white buoy on what is known as the Duke Rock. 
