82 FISH IN SCOTCH SEA-LOCHS. [PART I. 
induced them to congregate. Next to these, Cod 
and Codlings, Flounders, and Lythe are generally 
the most plentiful. They are, however, varied by 
many others, among which I may particularly 
notice, as very familiar, those sea-pike, the Hake, 
brutes for whom it is the fashion to fish with a 
hook apparently large enough for a Shark, affixed 
to a chain nearly as large as a jack-chain, but 
which—however little one might suspect it from 
their formidable rows of teeth, and (occasionally) 
voracious appetites—seem to nibble as gently and 
delicately as a roach, and, when they are not in- 
clined to bite, are often felt rubbing against your 
plummet, and actually raising it up, as if they 
were scratching their backs against it,—as I dare 
say they are; Gurnet, who when they are hoisted 
on board, and at intervals, as long as they have 
power to express their feelings, grunt out their 
disapprobation of your proceedings; the beautiful 
little golden-opal-tinted Power-Cod, there called 
“King-fish ” (I am sorry to use so many epithets, 
but he deserves them all); Sillocks’, (Stenlocks or 
Stedlocks) and Saithe (Coal-fish of more advanced 
1 There is some little confusion with regard to the names 
of this fish, which differ in different parts of the coast. Al- 
though Sillock, Stenlock, and Stedlock are, I believe, always 
