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commonly run into harbour twice a week to deliver 
their fifth. The five-men boat is decked at each end, 
but open in the middle, and has two large lug-fails. 
The beft bait for all kinds of fifh is frefh herring 
cut in pieces of a proper fize; and notwithftanding 
what has been faid to the contrary, they are taken 
here at any time in the winter, and all the {pring, 
whenever the Hfhermen put down their nets for that 
purpofe. The five-men boats always take fome nets 
for that end. ‘Next to herrings are the leffer lam- 
preys*, which come all winter by land-carriage from 
Tadcafter. ‘The next baits in efteem are fmall ha- 
docks cut in pieces, fand worms, mufcles, and lim- 
pets (called here flidders;) and laftly, when none 
of thefe can be had they ufe bullock’s liver. The 
hooks ufed here are much fmaller than thofe em- 
ployed at Iceland and Newfoundland. "Experience 
has fhewn that the larger fith will take a living 
fmall one upon the hook, fooner than any bait that 
can be puton; therefore they ufe fuch as the fmall 
fifh can fwallow. ‘The hooks are two inches and 
an half long in the fhank, and near an inch wide 
between the fhank and the point. ‘The line is made 
of {mall cording, and is always tanned before it is 
ufed. 
Turbots, and all the rays, are extremely delicate 
in their choice of baits. Jf a piece of herring or 
hadock has been twelve hours ‘out, of the fea, and 
then ufed as bait, they will not tovich it. 
* The Dutch alfo ufe thefe fifth as baits in the turbot fithery, 
and purchafe annually from the T/ames fifhermen as much as 
amounts to 700/. worth, for that purpofe, 
This 
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