sport fishing
Catching fish recreationally
Sport fishing is recreational fishing pursued for enjoyment, challenge, or competition rather than commercial harvest.
The term emphasizes the sporting aspect—the skill involved in landing game fish, often with specialized tackle and techniques.
Sport fishers frequently practice catch-and-release: He goes sport fishing for marlin every summer but releases what he catches.
- baitLure for prey
- trollingProvoking reactions online
- reelWinding cylinder or dance
- catch-and-releaseFishing without keeping
- marlinSpear-snouted game fish
game fish · bass · lures · angling · tight lines · rivers · salmon · trout · waders · bag limits · trophy fish · tuna · jigging · oceans · charter boat · sustainable practices · fillet · rod
- wildlife usehunting season, trophy hunting, game management, wildlife trade, sustainable harvest
- Bristol Baysockeye salmon, red salmon, king salmon, salmon run, fish camp
- fishing industrytrawling, fisherman, trawlers, trawl net, gillnetting
- freshwater fishingfreshwater fish, walleye, crappie, bluegill, perch
- Coastal AlaskaSitka, Juneau, Ketchikan, Glacier Bay, fjords
- Great Lakes Fishinglake trout, walleye, perch, whitefish, Lake Erie
scale and method
sport fishinglonglining
Multi-hook commercial fishing method
net fishing · trawling · industrial fishing · fish farming · aquaculture