26o FISHES I HAVE KNOWN 



falling overboard as I did so. Its ungainly and 

 repellent form almost filled the boat. Round its 

 ugly mouth were many hooks, which it had fouled 

 when it had interrupted the shoal of whiting and 

 appropriated their bait. 



Another time we caught mullet with very fine 

 lines, and off Caldy Island many fine red and grey 

 specimens ; and gurnard, those brilliant butterflies 

 of the deep, with wing-like pectoral fins, excellent 

 eating, however, when properly baked with veal 

 stufifing. 



On my last outing we pulled up our lobster- 

 pots, many of the combative Crustacea being of 

 large size ' that necessitated careful handling. 



Reluctantly I left Tenby, and returned to prosaic 

 London. 



" A record lobster, 2^ feet long and weighing over 7 lbs., 

 was caught off Deal pier, in October, 1904, by Mr. Waddel, 

 a local angler. 



