PILCHARD BAIT FOR HAKE, COD, OR CONGER.

THE

SEA-FISHERMAN:

COMPRISING

THE CHIEF METHODS OF HOOK AND

LINE FISHING IN THE BRITISH AND OTHER SEAS, AND

REMARKS ON NETS, BOATS, AND BOATING.

BY

J. C. WILCOCKS

PLYMOUTH (LATE OF GUERNSEY):

WINNER OF THE PRIZE OF ONE HUNDRED POUNDS AT THE INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES
EXHIBITION OF 1883 FOR THE BEST ESSAY ON IMPROVED FISHERY HARBOUR
ACCOMMODATION FOR GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, ETC. ETC.

AND AUTHOR OF SIX OTHER PRIZE ESSAYS ON FISHERY

SUBJECTS AT THE FISHERIES EXHIBITIONS AT
NORWICH 1881 AND EDINBURGH 1882.

PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED WITH WOODCUTS OF LEADS,
BAITED HOOKS, KNOTS, NETS, BOATS, &c. AND
DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SAME.

'I cast my line in Largo Bay,

And hauled up fishes nine;

They're three to boil, and three to fry,

And three to bait the line.

The boatie rows' &c. (auld Song).

FOURTH EDITION,

MUCH ENLARGED AND ALMOST ENTIRELY REWRITTEN.

LONDON:

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

1884.

All rights reserved.

PREFACE

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THE FOURTH EDITION.

THE SUCCESSIVE EDITIONS of this work have been carefully revised, with many augmentations, both of the matter and in the number of illustrations.

The latter have been done under the eye of the

author, by a friend, Mr. G. LE MASURIER of Guernsey, in a manner calculated to convey to the amateur faithful representations.

J. C. WILCOCKS.