240 SEA-FISH. 
waste of time as possible with artificial baits. Much of 
the water off Leghorn and Naples looks the very thing, 
for instance for railing, yet have I rowed and sailed with 
all manner of rubber eels and various metal delusions with- 
out any result whatever, The exception to this, however, is 
the successful use of a couple of white feathers lashed to 
a hook and used at night in connection with a torch hung 
over the bow of the boat, by which means a fine fish 
known as doraéa is caught. Gurnards and sea-scorpions 
are very common in all the deep rock-pools; and grey 
mullet may often be caught at daybreak in the docks (my 
best mullet water at Leghorn was at the private quays of 
the Zngenio civile of the Government) with a paste made 
of arrowroot biscuit and pounded sardines or anchovies. 
No yachting man should go on a Mediterranean cruise 
without laying in a few sovereigns’ worth of tackle, a stout 
rod or two and an assortment of hand-lines, leads and 
hooks, for he will have great opportunities for first-class 
sea-fishing. Were it not indeed for indiscriminate netting 
and not a little dynamiting, the fishing of this sea would 
probably be second to none inthe Old World. 
AFRICA. 
“ Sarcelle” has told us from time to time in the 
columns of the /e/7 of the excellent sport he 
enjoyed during his official residence on the 
Mogador coast, and more than one correspondent has 
assured me of the mighty fish that may there be hooked, 
only lamenting that the coast is so exposed that it is 
often impossible to get out for days, even weeks, together. 
There is also a little fishing at times outside Tangier Bay, 
but the fish run small as a rule. 
I have fished in passing at various spots on the Suez 
Ss Canal, though of course such chance wetting of 
ue : a . a 
hooks is of little value in determining the actual 
sporting value of that waterway. A few small bass off 
the mole at Port Said and several garfish one daybreak 
off Ismailia, hooked but lost, three or four small ground- 
sharks resembling rowhounds, though not identical, and 
a good catch of black sea bream, none over half a pound 
in weight, off Suez, these represent my angling acquaint- 
ance with the Canal, 
Morocco 
