SEA-FISHING. 



CHAPTER XIX. 



Fishing for Hake, Cod, Liug, Bream, Turbot, Maokerel, Wliiting, 

 &o. 



In this age of excursions; when everybody, more or less, 

 passes some time at the sea-side, it may be useful to give 

 a few hints as to the sport which may be obtained by the 

 angler, or rather by one who uses a line and hook by the 

 shore, on the " deep sea wave,'' or in a tidal river or estuary. 



Let me, however, premise that few sea fish afford much 

 sport in the angler's sense. Some enthusiastic Waltonians 

 would probably call it butchery, but a large quantity of fish 

 may be caught, and though, from the strength of the tackle, 

 there is but little chance of the fish breaking away, still it 

 is not free from excitement, and affords an opportunity of 

 changing the monotony of a sea-side residence, and of 

 securing a basket of fish. 



For rod-fishing, except sea trout, there is but little 

 opportunity. At low water, on rocky projections, a species 

 of perch may be caught with a rod and line freely. The 

 hook is baited with a bit of garbage, the iuside of a cockle, 



