The Badminton Magazine 1896-02: Vol 2 Iss 7 (1896)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 90
d, goodness knows how, are one’s troubles over, for there are yet several hundred yards to be covered by leaping from boulder to boulder, until you reach some favourite spot for that huge Jlabroid, the blue groper, generally a deep pool almost landlocked, into which swirls the overflow from each… … WIRRAH submerged rocks by a dexterous turn of a rusty knife kept for the purpose. — All being ready, the good lead is swung laterally over the head, and the baited hooks fly out between the rocks. The skill with which experienced rock-fishers will pitch a lead twenty | |
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