FLAT-FISH TRAWLING OFF THE WIGHT

'I KNOWS, sir, as how we're agoin' to 'ave a regler bucketful of fish to-day,' said 'Jemmy the Fisher' to me the other morning as we bounded along out of Portsmouth harbour, under the auspices of a brisk sou-westerly breeze, towards St. Helen's, at the easternmost end of the Isle of Wight, where our trawling grounds lay. 'Yes, sir, that we is; agoin' to 'ave a regler bucketful o' fish, and no mistake neither. I knowed it afore I roused up this mornin' and seed the way the wind was a-blowin', right across the Kicker; and I says to my missus, says I, "We're agoin' to 'ave a regler bucketful o' fish.