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Ice Fishing

Ice fishing is something I want to try! Our water never gets hard on top here in middle Georgia, so I never get a chance to go. Reading about it makes me want to give it a try. It is a little scary thinking about the dangers of ice fishing..

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Fly-Fishing

Perhaps the most sporting and difficult angling method is fly-fishing, widely used for catching trout. The fly angler uses a rod much longer—up to 3 m (10 ft)—and lighter than rods used for bait and spin fishing. Fly reels are also different...

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Spin Fishing

When spin fishing with artificial lures, anglers cast their offering from boat or shore into areas where game fish might be. Once the lure has landed in the water, the angler retrieves it by turning the reel handle....

Fishing as a sport, however, is of considerable antiquity. An Egyptian angling scene of about 2000 BC shows figures fishing with rod and line and with nets. A Chinese account of about the 4th century BC refers to fishing with a silk line, a hook made from a needle, and a bamboo rod, with cooked rice as bait. References to fishing are also found in ancient Greek, Assyrian, Roman, and Jewish writings.
Today, fishing, often called sport fishing to distinguish it from commercial fishing, is, despite the growth of towns and the increase of pollution in many sources, one of man's principal relaxations and is, in many countries, the most popular participant sport.

History of fishing

Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish. It is an ancient and worldwide practice that dates back about 10,000 years with various techniques and traditions and it has been transformed by modern technological developments.

The pious Sir Isaac Walton suggests that the first angler was none other than the Biblical Adam's son Seth who passed the art of angling down through posterity, surviving even Noah's flood and so on to Moses.

Big-Game Fishing

Big-game fishing, made feasible by the motorized boat, was pioneered in 1898 by C.F. Holder, who took a 183-pound (83-kilogram) bluefin tuna off Santa Catalina Island, California.

State of Fishing

In the last quarter of the 20th century, fishing was thriving. The growth of air travel after World War II made many areas of North America and elsewhere accessible to anglers and ...

Bait Fishing

Bait fishing, as the name implies, involves the use of live or dead bait with a hook attached. Using a short rod, reel, and heavy line, the bait angler casts the bait from shore or boat and lets it sink.

Modern Sportfishing

Since that time, anglers have not only striven to improve their fishing gear, tactics, and knowledge of their quarry, but they have also come to realize that their sport must be protected if it is to survive. Propagation of game fish in hatcheries, condemnation of air and water pollution..

Saltwater Fishing

The four basic methods of angling mentioned during previous weeks (bait fishing, fly fishing, bait casting and trolling) are all used in saltwater fishing also, fly fishing being perhaps the least used, although it has become increasingly popular in the second half of the 20th century.

Chumming

Chumming, another favored tactic, is used primarily in salt water. Once a school of fish has been located, the angler throws chum (ground up oily fish) over the side of the boat in an attempt to draw the prospective catch close. A baited hook is then cast into the midst of the chum slick.

Trolling

Trolling, another productive way of catching freshwater fish, is done from a boat moving slowly over areas where fish may be holding (staying in one place), dragging a baited hook or lure 27 m (30 yd) or more behind the stern. Trolling is also the favored method of saltwater big-game fishing

The Early Reels And Rods

The first rudimentary reel had consisted of a wooden spool with a metal ring that fitted over the angler's thumb. By 1770 a rod with guides for the line along its length and a reel was in common use. The first true reel was a geared multiplying reel attached under the rod, in which one turn of the handle moved the spool through several revolutions.

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