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In some places the bottom is gravelly, but on the shoal it is sharp, broken rocks. The sandy bottom furnishes good fares of haddock in May and June. "Bobber trawling" is the usual method used here in June. This ground is fished mainly by small boats and sloops using hand lines and trawls. Steamboat Ground. Seven miles WSW. from Monhegan Island; it is 3 miles long, NE. and SW, and ½ mile wide.
Each one'll take care of what two thousand pounds of round fish'll make after they're dressed and salted." "What do you mean by round fish?" "Just as they come out of the water, before they're cleaned." "What're those half-barrels, full of small rope?" "Trawl-tubs; and those coils inside are the trawls.
"I'd like to go out with you to the trawls, Jim, to-morrow morning," said Percy. "Glad to have you," responded Spurling, heartily. Two hours before light they were gliding out of the cove in the Barracouta, bound for Medrick Shoal, four miles to the eastward. "Percy," said Jim as the sloop rolled rhythmically on the long Atlantic swells, "I want to tell you something.
Convenient as would be the power to obtain bait near the fishing-grounds and to trans-ship fish home in bond, neither was indispensable. Cod are still caught with trawls and baited hooks. The best bait is squid, whose abundance upon the Banks is what causes the cod so to frequent them.
Slogging at the heavy trawls and afterward dressing the catch was too plebeian a business for the son of a millionaire. So he let the others tire their muscles and soil their hands and clothing while he attended strictly to the business of pleasing himself. He could not help being aware of a growing coolness on the part of his associates, but it gave him no concern.
Hand lines and trawls are used here now, although in former times this and the preceding grounds were considered too sharp for the use of trawls. Both these are good lobster grounds and chiefly small-boat grounds. The northern portion of this ridge lies 6½ miles NW. by W. from Matinicus Rock, from which the ground extends about 7 miles in a SSW. direction. The greatest width is not over 1 mile.
Other bottom feeders occur in less numbers, the pollock and the cusk perhaps being next in order of importance, with hake and a considerable amount of the various flatfishes in the otter trawls. These latter are marketed as sole.
They carry a lofty topmast and large topsails, and these they seldom lower, even when obliged to have two reefs in the mainsail. They are capital sea-boats, fast, and very handy; and it requires a good yacht to beat a bawley with a brisk wind blowing. The men are keen sailors, and when the trawls are taken up and their heads turned homewards it is always a race to be first back.
The June and July cod school is the best, but this species is present in smaller numbers all the year. It seems necessary to leave the halibut trawls down for a longer set here than on other grounds in order to make a good catch. German Bank. This is one of the most important banks in the Bay of Fundy. Its length is about 15 miles, the width 9 or 10 miles.
We can buy hake heads for our lobster-traps from the fish-wharf at Matinicus, and herring for the trawls from one of the weirs at Vinalhaven. That means traveling over forty miles; but it's fine weather, and we ought to do it easily. Besides, it'll give you fellows a good chance to learn how to handle a power-sloop.
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