Pollock Rip Grounds.  These lie between Pollock Rip Lightship and Shovelful Lightship and extend northward to Pollock Rip Shoal.  These grounds are 3 miles long, E. and W., by 2 miles N. and S. The depths range from 4 to 12 fathoms.  These are fished from Monomoy and in stormy weather from Chatham instead of going to the Crab Ledge.  Late in the spring and early in the fall the cod move inshore.  In winter the cod leave Pollock Rip for the deeper water.

Rose and Crown Shoal.  This is a small piece of ground 7 miles ESE. from Sankaty Head.  The fishing area lies between the Round Shoal and Rose and Crown buoys, making a stretch perhaps 6 miles long by 1 1/2 miles wide.  Sometimes good fishing may be had from 6 to 12 mile, from Great Round Shoal buoy.  As elsewhere on and about these shoals, the cod is the principal species caught, pollock being next in importance, and a few haddock.

Nantucket Shoals, Madisons Spot.  SSE. 13 miles front Round Shoal buoy, has 9 fathoms over a smooth hard bottom of sand.  It is about 3 miles long, from Se. to NW. by 1 1/2 miles wide.  This is a flounder ground for the greater part of the year and a good cod ground in October and November.  As is the rule elsewhere in this neighborhood, tides are heavy over this ground.

Nantucket Shoal—­Great Rip.  Lies 13 miles E. by S. 1/2 S. from Sankaty Head Light.  Nantucket.  It is 5 miles long from N, to S. and 3 miles broad.  Over this area the depths are from 9 to 18 feet, but the fishing is done mainly around the edges in 6 to 12 fathoms where the bottom is gravel and shells covered with sponges and kelp.  Here, as on all these shoals, the greater part of the fishing is done by that method known as “rip fishing.”  Cod are taken chiefly by hand-lining in May.  June, July, and August.

Nantucket Shoals; Davis Bank; Crab Bank.  This is an irregular piece of bottom lying in a generally ENE. and WSW direction at about 20 miles distance ESE from Sankaty Head.  It is perhaps 14 miles long by 5 miles wide at its broadest.  Depths upon it are from 4 to 9 fathoms, with soundings of 12 to 18 about it, over a bottom of sand and broken shells.

Nantucket Shoals Fishing Rip is an elongate bank lying 29 miles Se. from Sankaty Head Light.  It is 10 miles long in a NE and SW direction and Southeast Rip (Nantucket Shoals) lies Se. from Sankaty Head 35 miles.  It has depths from 8 to 10 fathoms over an area about 10 miles long by 2 miles wide, with from 22 to 30 fathoms over the sandy bottom around it.

Phelps Bank.  This bank lies 38 miles Se, 1/2 S. from Sankaty Head Light and agrees more or less in size, shape, trend, and character of the bottom with Fishing Rip.  Depths are from 10 to 17 fathoms.  On the southeast edge of this lies Rogers Fishing Ground, with 24 to 40 fathoms over fine gray sand.  It is perhaps mainly a haddock ground.