APPENDIX. 233 
‘a cod of 11 lbs. The pollack-grounds appear to lie 
closer inshore than at most places. Accommodation is 
not costly, as there is a comfortable inn, charging only 
#2 a week, and 6s. was the daily charge for a large boat 
and two men. Amateurs rarely visit the place, and the 
aborigines were much surprised to find what large pollack 
could be killed on the rod and “capstan,” as they in- 
sisted on calling the winch. The harbour is sufficient 
for the requirements of trawlers, but is said to be unsafe 
at times. The sea breaks with great force on the ledge 
of rocks on either side. Those who care about the ex- 
perience of going out with the long liners, and seeing 
them kill tons of conger, ling, and the like, cannot 
choose a better place than Porthleven. 
Very different in character from the fishing on the 
Cornish and Devon coasts is that obtainable 
at Ramsgate, where the conditions closely re- 
semble those already given for Deal and Dover. 
I know no sea-angler with a longer and more varied 
experience of this place than Captain Lambton Young, 
who so often presides, unless prevented by ill health, at 
the B.S.A.S. meetings. He writes me that the best 
time for the fishing is August to October. As to “marks,” 
almost anywhere about three miles off the coast, or even 
off the red buoy just west of the harbour, where you may 
get a good catch of whiting or flat-fsh. Also, off 
Sandwich, in the small Downs, and right up to the North 
Foreland, is all good ground. Boats usually keep inside 
the Goodwins, one favourite ground being about three to 
four miles due north of Deal pier and two to two and a 
half miles off Sandwich. Lug, dug in the mud of 
Pegwell Bay, or bought of the bait-dealers in the town, is 
considered the best bait, but squid, obtained from the 
trawlers, is also much used. Boats cost about 2s. an 
hour, but an arrangement can usually be made by the 
week, 
Mr. Lee, to whom I have been indebted for so many 
useful notes in the foregoing pages, sends me a Sank: 
few lines on the sea-fishing obtainable in the 
Channel Islands, and more particularly at Sark. Though 
it is much vaunted—and I have had some first-rate 
sport myself yachting off Guernsey—Mr. Lee does not 
consider the fishing in these islands any better than that 
