CHAPTER V. 
On Sea-fishing—Fine Tackle required—Best form of Tackle 
Jor general use—* Tell-tale” or “ Dodger” —Baiis—on 
South Coast—in Scotland—Fly-fishing in Sea-lochs— Mode 
of proceeding—Gaff essential—Executioner. 
T seems to me that the subject of Sea-fishing 
has never been treated with the attention it 
deserves. About Fly-fishing, Bottom-fishing, and 
nearly every other branch of the “gentle a Me 
books enough to stock a library have been written, 
and but little remains to be said with regard to 
them; but as to Sea-fishing the case is altogether 
different. Comparatively little interest is taken 
in it as a pursuit, and those who would gain any 
information on the subject from books, will find 
but few which treat of it at all, and those in but 
a very meagre and cursory manner. And yet it 
is one for which these shores offer abundant op- 
portunities; is in itself pleasant, interesting, and 
often very exciting, and one moreover in which 
success depends in great measure on the care 
and skill of the fisherman. 
