242 SEA-FISH. 
swarm with fish of many kinds, not a few of which afford 
very excellent sport to the amateur. Table Bay, Kamps 
Bay, Fish Hook Bay, and Simon’s Bay all offer capital 
fishing for rod and line. So great are the teeming num- 
bers of Cape fish, that the docks have periodically to be 
disencumbered of them. At a single clearance of one 
dock, tons of fish are taken out and thrown away. The 
best places for the amateur fisherman are certainly 
Simon’s Bay, Kalk Bay, and Muizenberg. These places 
all lie in the great False Bay, to the east of the Cape 
Peninsula, and can be reached from Cape Town, of 
which they are practically suburbs, in an hour or a little 
over. Good accommodation can be obtained at all these 
places, especially at Muizenberg and Kalk Bay, which 
lie close together. 
‘Sea fishing at the Cape is, as a business, almost entirely 
in the hands of the Malays. These people are expert 
fishermen and, whether with sail or oars, handle the long 
whale-boats, sharp pointed at both ends, in which they 
ply their trade, extremely well. The best known fish 
are snoek, kabeljouw, Roman, rooi steenbras, blaauw 
steenbras, rooi stompneus, seventy four, Hottentot, 
poeskop, silver fish, Jacob Evertsen, katunker, stokvisch, 
springer (mullet), klipvisch, king klip visch, hangeberger, 
windtoy, gurnard, geelbek, sancord, baardmannatje, and 
paempelmoesje. It will be observed that these are all, 
or almost all, old-fashioned Dutch names, for, at the Cape, 
people are essentially conservative. 
‘““Among the rocks at Green Point, Kamps Bay, and 
Kalk Bay, the angler with rod and line may expect to 
obtain fair sport with some of the smaller rock fish, such 
as Hottentots, klip fish, poempelmoesje, king klip fish, 
and others. The king klip fish (king rock fish) is de- 
servedly esteemed as one of the most delicious of Cape 
table fish. ‘Speaking generally, it is not to be denied 
that our northern fishes afford far better eating than most 
tropical or subtropical kinds. But the Cape fish, 
although they cannot vie with the best of north European 
fish in this respect, belong mainly to the south temperate 
zone, and many of them are really excellent at: table. 
Especially to be singled out are the king klip fish, Roman, 
sancord, Jacob Evertsen, baardmannatje (little bearded 
