SEA ANGLING IN GREAT BRITAIN 



Mr. T. W. Gomm in a paper read before tlieB.S.A.S. Mr. Aflalo 

 with some friends took at Margate seven fish which weighed 

 about twenty pounds, one of which weighed three pounds ; 

 while on another occasion Mr. Gonun and Mr. Francis Daunon 

 took at Margate jetty thirty-three mullet, the best weighing 

 eight pounds seven ounces. The mullet anglers use ten-foot 

 hoUow cane rods and ground bait of bread paste. A silk line, a 

 sMer floatj and clickless or silent Nottingham reel, with a 

 Number 3 crystal hook completed the tackle. It only remains 

 to be said that the mullet anglers were artists in that peculiar 

 sport. 



What fishes may be had every month in the year are as 

 follows, for which I am indebted to the late Mr. WiUiam Hearder 

 and Mr. Marston of the FisMng Gazette: 



January. — ^Atherine (smelt), tub, piper, red gurnard, mackerel, 

 dory, skate, sharp-nosed ray, homeljra ray, sprat, anchovy, eel, ling, cod, 

 whiting, haddock, pouting, coal-fish, and all shell-fish. 



February. — ^Atherine (smelt), sprat, anchovy, fing, whiting, pouting, 

 dab, mackerel, eel, tub, piper, red gurnard, and aU sheU-fish. 



March. — ^Mackerel, pouting, conger, atherine (smelt), thomback, 

 anchovy, sprat, dab, turbot, briU, and aU. sheU-fish. 



A'pril. — Scad, mackerel, conger, eel, atherine (smelt), thomback, 

 pouting, hake, briU, turbot, dab, and all shell-fish. 



May. — Sturgeon, dory, scad, mackerel, thomback, conger, eel, bass, 

 surmullet, launce, poUack, hake, atherine (smelt), wrasses, turbot, brill. 



June. — Breams in general, wrasses in general, atherine (smelt), sturgeon, 

 bass, surmullet, pUchard, thomback, poUack, hake, mackerel, dory, scad, 

 eel, conger, launce, sole, plaice, turbot, briU, mary-sole, flounder, halibut. 

 July. — Pilchard, herring, homelyn ray, sharp-nosed ray, skate, thom- 

 back, launce, sturgeon, muUet, atherine (smelt), wrasses in general, 

 breams in general, surmullet, bass, poUack, lythe, hake, mackerel, scad, 

 dory, eel, conger, dab, briU, turbot, sole, mary-sole, halibut, plaice, floun- 

 der. 



August. — Bass, surmullet, conger, eel, herring, anchovy, pilchard, 

 poUack, hake, tub, piper, red gurnard, wrasses in general, breams in 

 general, sharp-nosed ray, thomback, skate, homelyn ray, atherine (smelt), 

 muUet, sole, flounder, plaice, dab, mary-sole, halibut, turbot, briU, dory, 

 scad, launce. 



Septemher. — Sole, floimder, plaice, dab, mary-sole, haUbut, turbot, 



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