CH. V.] SEA FLY-FISHING—SAITHE. 17 
might be considered somewhat tame, but this is 
by no means the case, as, in addition to these, you 
catch very many larger fish, principally Lythe 
(Whiting-Pollack), which sometimes run up to 
twelve pounds weight or more, Stenlocks (the 
second growth of the Coal-fish1), and Codlings, with 
now and then, though rarely, a Mackerel. <A day’s 
fishing of this kind therefore often yields, not only 
a numerous score, but a very respectable one in 
point of weight and variety. 
Saithe (the full-grown Coal-fish'), which run 
up to a very large size—I have heard as much 
as. twenty-five or thirty pounds—are occasionally 
caught in this way. Last year (1858), I was 
trailing, whilst running up a Scotch loch under 
sail with the wind, when one of my flies was taken 
by a large fish, which naturally ran off in an oppo- 
site direction to the boat. The sail being boomed 
out, before we could bring her round, he had run 
out the whole of my line, and, apparently without 
an effort, carried away casting-line and flies. This 
was probably a Saithe, and his weight could not 
have been much, if at all, under fifteen pounds, 
while it might have been double that. 
The weight, the use of which I have recom- 
1 See note, page 82. 
