The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-07-19 00:00:00

HOW TO CATCH FISH WHEN AT THE

SEASIDE.

The following letter, which haa srecial interest at this
season, appears in Land and !Pater :—"Sir,—As the
sea-on is approach,ng for families going to the seuide
for sea-bathing, and generally for the health of the
younger branches. I thick a short account of • kind of
occupation to which I was addicted years and years ago,
under the above ciicumstrinces, and by which I was
able successfully to el j iy the amusement of fishing,
though there were no boats to be had, and no rocks
from which fishing could be attempted with any pro..
pect of !moues, except of the most meagre description,
will be intereating to your young readers, and I hope
may prove as profitable to them as I myself bound it to
be. I pretend to no origin dity for the plan I selopted,
but it may not have occur red to many of your juvenile
readers when located on the sec-shore, where there
happens in be an ostensive capsule of sand, that even
there, with no boats, or rook., or pierhead to fiat from,
still they may enjoy the excitement attending the
c•ptute of the finny denizens of the deep, with ad•en•
taco to the family dinner table and pecuniary profit to
themselves. My plan was simply a fisherman's
long line' in miniature, constructed as follows :
—1 provided myself with • main line of stout
enrd, about 40 yards ion;; got &boot Rix dozen
of trout bait hooka, dressed or dlible•twiared
silkworm gut, and I used a piece of an old hair fl.h•
ing line, by adding a shot t pi. as to the end of each of
the above.mentione I twisted gut lines. m 'king each of
these branch lines about eighteen inches in length ; I
then fastened the end ef each of these branch lines to
the main line as one yard apart, leaving each branch
shout sixteen inches iu length, so as to prevent them
from being liable to set entangled with one another
when the line was set in the water : two cork bungs
anti th ee flat stones cimpleted my fluting apparatus.
with the addition of a basket or box to curry my bait
to, and also my line when going to or returning from
the sea at low water. I had a considerable amount of
occupation in providing bait by digging in the sand for
uaweed.worins, and at very low tides, I used to ig t
sand eels, which ate a first•rate halt. I used to take
my fishing apparatus down to the shore at low water,
and having previously attached the heanehes to the
main line, I then atret•hed the main line loosely along
the sand, atol I futened each en I to one of the Hat
atom s before mentioned, having the line parallel to the
advancing tide. The nezt thing to do isto bait each hook
carefully with • piece of sandwoim or eel, and haying
attached a bung to each of the two flat stones, one at
each end, by • line about a yard lug, carry one end of
the line, with the stone •tteched.into the • a. till in about
two feet a water, beyond the pieces of wood floating with
the rising tide. Put down the stone and see that the
bung floats properly ; then carry in the other end of
the lime, and do the saute with it, taking care that the
main line is not quite tight, but has • little play ; your
line is now se, and you had better remain near the
place till the rising tide hu conualet the hung., and
your line is not likely to be meddled with, and I need
hardly add that I would stronaly advise you to be down
at the shore in good time to secure Mu (rodeo( your
labour. The use I made of the third fist stone was to
mark the spot where I had set my line, by placing it
inshore of one of the other stone* about 10 yards or so,
so that when standing at that stone I would b•i sure to
see one of the bungs. A line 40 yards long will aecom-
toodate about rio hooks, and give one or two, or even
three boys ample occupation in getting bait and pre-
poring and setting line. If the boor of low water suited,
used to get two hauls in the day, as, after taking off
the fish I had Caught, I immediately eat the line again,
and even at night, if there was moonlight, I found no
difficulty in doing so, and no hoar in the morning was
too early for me. I used to catch eels, fi 'widen,. small
whitings, cud-tinge, and sometimes dog-flub, and I sold
the produce of my &beery to my
.ruuther, and then I
helped to eat it try 'Tide Fishing.' —CitAbaStia.
London, June 6, 1870."

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