Monhegan Inner Sou’Sou’west Ground. this ground takes its name from its bearing, lying SSW from Monhegan light, distant 5 miles.  Its width is 1 1/2 miles, its length NNE and SSW is 1 1/4 miles.  It has a sharp, broken, rocky bottom, including a small shoal of 20 fathoms and some hummocks of rather greater depths.  The deepest water is in the neighborhood of 50 fathoms.  Fishing here is from May until July for codfish and pollock:  hake and cusk are in the deep water in the spring months and halibut on the shoal in July and September.  This ground is principally fished by trawls, but there is considerable hand lining in September and October.  Gillnetting, too, has become more common of later years.

Harris Ground.  From 15 miles S 1/2 W from Monhegan island to 6 miles SSW.  It has 40 to 50 fathoms over a bottom of sharp rocks and mud—­a “blistery” bottom.  Cod, cusk and hake are found here the year around.  Halibut are here in June, July and August.  Fishing is by trawling and hand lining, with very little gillnetting.

The 45 Fathom Bunch.  Sixteen miles S 1 1/2 E from Monhegan.  This is a great ground for June hand lining for cod.  Thence 1 mile ENE to 70 fathom depth, which leads to a piece of ground leading to the Inner Fall, on which, on a hard bottom and mud where there is an abundance of “lemons” and similar forms, are found cod cusk and pollock in June.  The ground is about 6 miles long, WSW and ENE by 1 mile wide.

Another Forty Five Fathom Bunch lies 22 miles S 1/2 E from Monhegan.  This ground is 4 miles long by 1 mile wide, running ENE and WSW, and has depths from 45 to 75 fathoms.  This is likewise a great cod hand lining ground in June.

Another of the same name lies 26 miles S 1 1/2 E from Monhegan.  It has a 49 fathom shoal and the species and seasons are much the same as on the other grounds of the name.  This is probably the ground known to other vessel captains as Toothaker Ridge.

Monhegan Outer Sou’Sou’West.  This ground is SSW from Monhegan Light. the center distant 9 miles It is 4 miles long, NNE and SSW and about 2 miles wide, and has 45 fathoms on the shoalest part but the depths generally are from 60 to 80 fathoms.  The bottom generally is gravelly and quite level.  The ground is fished by both boats and vessels using hand lines and trawls.

This is a cod ground in spring and fall.  In summer hake are abundant here, and halibut are quite plentiful in July on the shoalest part.

Old Jeffrey.  An exceedingly good ground.  It is said that better fishing may be had here than on any other ground of its size in the vicinity.  This piece of bottom bears Se from Pumpkin Rock, from which the center is distant about 6 miles.  It is about 3 miles long NE and SW, and about 1 mile wide.  The bottom is broken, of gravel and mud, with depths from 25 to 50 fathoms.  Fishing here is by trawling and land-lining.  In spring cod are most abundant, in late summer and fall hake, cod, and pollock are taken.  Halibut are found on the shoaler parts in July.