Categories of Fishing Styles

[Sundancefisher]

I was asked the question today...how many main styles of fishing are there?

I thought of

1) Flyfishing

2) Bait Fishing

3) Trolling

Can anyone think of one I missed?

[chubbdarter]

casting artifical hardware

[Sundancefisher]

casting artifical hardware

Good point... Do you think it is fair to just call it Spin Fishing?

[chubbdarter]

Good point... Do you think it is fair to just call it Spin Fishing?

can this be answered when school is out in Bentley?

[FishingMOM]

Spear fishing

Netting/traps

[aulrich]

Sort of depends on what you mean by "main" types.

Fly and conventional

But eaisily you could split up fly fishing into:

still water
running

and conventional

casting
trolling
bait
bottom

Then there is ice fishing

[ShhImFishing]

Bow fishing too

[chubbdarter]

my favorite.....Bobber

[boot]

You could probably break it down into categories.

By equipment:
Fly Fishing
Spin/Cast Fishing
Trolling

Then within equipment, by styles?
Dry Fly, Nymphing (and Chironomids), Streamers
Float Fishing, Bottom Fishing, Top Water Fishing, etc

Not a comprehensive list (I'm sure there are tons more)... but interesting topic.

[Rumtan]

Jigging

[Braun]

Rigging as well. I wouldn't really call doing things like lindy rigs under any of the above mentioned. although it is typically done with a bait but when I think of bait fishing I think Pickerel rig. and by my books, it takes more knowledge to lindy rig properly than using a pickerel rig.

Jigging I would classify as bait.

Heres how I would break it down:

Flyfishing
bait
spincasting (crank baits or spinners. anything with bait would go under the bait category)
trolling
Rigging
spear / bow
Trapping (crustaceans)
Pine coulée res. (it gets its own category because its boarder line not even fishing anymore )

[Redfrog]

C.I.L. wobbler.

[Daceminnow]

I was asked the question today...how many main styles of fishing are there?

I thought of

1) Flyfishing

2) Bait Fishing

3) Trolling

Can anyone think of one I missed?

how bout old school hillbilly fishin by hand.........noodling. heard the suckers are makin a come back at Mac, gonna give it a go when the water warms a bit. not ethical?

Dace

[Gust]

how bout old school hillbilly fishin by hand.........noodling. heard the suckers are makin a come back at Mac, gonna give it a go when the water warms a bit. not ethical?

Dace

when the suckers get to MacGreg there are usually a ton of Rainbows along for the tour. PM coming for a great troutin spot.

Uhm, you missed Mooching

[lucky_magic_stick]

Surfcasting using 14ft rod with a 4 to 6 oz weight is an experience also there's some places in the world that use a kite to fish so kitefishing I guess 2 more for the list.But they would also fall under bait cheers Andy

[Cal]

Fishing is one of those things that you have to either lump everything into a couple catagories or break it all down into hundreds. For instance if your not going to put lindy rigging in with bait fishing or trolling then may as well put jigging in its own catagory as well as slip bobbers and drop shoting etc...

I think the simpelest way to acurately break it down would be... Artificial lures, live bait, and fly fishing. From these three catagories you could further break each of them down more but to give lindy rigging its own catagory and then lump fly fishing all togeather or to break flyfishing down into lake and river fishing an then lump trolling in one category is inconcistant. To make it concistant you would end up with somthing like 20 categories so I would keep it to two or three big ones.

[Gust]

Fishing is one of those things that you have to either lump everything into a couple catagories or break it all down into hundreds. For instance if your not going to put lindy rigging in with bait fishing or trolling then may as well put jigging in its own catagory as well as slip bobbers and drop shoting etc...

I think the simpelest way to acurately break it down would be... Artificial lures, live bait, and fly fishing. From these three catagories you could further break each of them down more but to give lindy rigging its own catagory and then lump fly fishing all togeather or to break flyfishing down into lake and river fishing an then lump trolling in one category is inconcistant. To make it concistant you would end up with somthing like 20 categories so I would keep it to two or three big ones.

Bait and Harware.

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It's neither fruity nor presumptuous, it would be like kissing Venus after she posed on the half shell for Botticelli!!!,,, that was my best vinery description.

Ok Sundance make the fishing tree of life

[InserestedAngler]

i agree with cal saying live bait and artificial lures are a big dif. but still fishing and cast and retrieve are two very different styles too i think should be included

[Kokanee9]

How about shore fishing. (the stationary kind)

[Bigtoad]

Easy:
1. Those who do it.
2. Those poor bastards who don't.

[Cal]

i agree with cal saying live bait and artificial lures are a big dif. but still fishing and cast and retrieve are two very different styles too i think should be included

But cast and retrieve on rivers can be almost as different from cast and retrieve on lakes as it is from still fishing. Stillfishing a 3 way or a lindy is as different from fishing a slip bobber as it is from fishing a spoon. Nymph fishing on still water is as different from fishing drys on a streamas still fishing is from cast and retrieve. When you can slowly drift or retrieve a stillfishing rig, what do you call that? Once you start trying to break down any one of those three groups you've got to keep going with all of them or else you end up with a list that is so very inconsistant that it fails to be relevent.

[Speckle55]

Net fishing including net throwing
Electro fishing
Snarring
bucket fishing smelts
Swamp fishing like ice fishing(google u-tube)
Ukai Fishing in Japan(same)
Hand Line fishing
adding to list:)

[SushiUnagi]

Noodling

[Braun]

DUH we just forgotthe best one ICE FISHING!!!!

[Piers]

don't forget dynamite

[Sundancefisher]

OK.

Lots of great ideas...now to summarize...

1) Flyfishing

2) Bait Fishing

3) Trolling

4) Ice fishing

5) Spin Fishing

6) Noodling

7) Spear fishing

8) Hand lining

All of the above may also be further broken down to:

a) fishing from shore

b) fishing from a boat

c) walk and wade

I would think that other more specific comments like bobbers, jigging etc. are all different methods within the styles or should I say styles within the methods? For instance you can use bobbers or jigs with a spinning gear. Mooching would be trolling or bait fishing. Surf casting would be spin fishing from shore or walk and wade.

Fishing is one of those things that you have to either lump everything into a couple catagories or break it all down into hundreds. For instance if your not going to put lindy rigging in with bait fishing or trolling then may as well put jigging in its own catagory as well as slip bobbers and drop shoting etc...

I think the simpelest way to acurately break it down would be... Artificial lures, live bait, and fly fishing. From these three catagories you could further break each of them down more but to give lindy rigging its own catagory and then lump fly fishing all togeather or to break flyfishing down into lake and river fishing an then lump trolling in one category is inconcistant. To make it concistant you would end up with somthing like 20 categories so I would keep it to two or three big ones.

I agree...to the degree that what you are saying...these different ways of fishing...could be lumped into categories 1-8 above. I saw a tropical fishing show where they used kites to catch needlefish. Bait was a sticky spider web. I would categorize this in the hand line group.

Any thoughts anyone on the above? Is there any type of fishing that can not be lumped into 1-8 above?

[Chris84]

can this be answered when school is out in Bentley?

LOL!! Good one, or when the book is released?

[duffy4]

"Trolling" needs to be broken down as do some of the others.

You can troll a fly
you can troll a spoon or spinner
You can troll a plug or "crank-bait"
You can troll a flasher or dogger with a lure or bait
You can troll bait by itself
You can troll with "spreader boards"
You can troll with a down rigger

You can cast a spoon or troll a spoon or jig a spoon.

You can cast a worm with or without a bobber, bottom fish it on a "rig" troll it by itself or with a lure or attractor.

A fly can be cast and left to sit on the surface
It can be cast and stripped in
It can be cast to drift over a fish
It can be cast to a feeding fish (sight fishing)
It can be "dabbled" at rods length in a likely spot on a small stream



The more on fishes the more one learns different ways to use different lures to catch different fish in different locations.

[duffy4]

I guess you could lump lots of things together. But what is the point of talking about different types or methods of fishing anyway?

If I come in to the boat launch with a limit of fish and someone asks me "How did you catch those"?

If I answer "some trolling, some casting". I am not really telling them much about how I caught them, am I?

If I unlump methods and say "I got two trolling a green flatfish and three jigging a yellow Mr. Twister with a minnow". Then I have provided valuable specific information.

[Sundancefisher]

I guess you could lump lots of things together. But what is the point of talking about different types or methods of fishing anyway?

If I come in to the boat launch with a limit of fish and someone asks me "How did you catch those"?

If I answer "some trolling, some casting". I am not really telling them much about how I caught them, am I?

If I unlump methods and say "I got two trolling a green flatfish and three jigging a yellow Mr. Twister with a minnow". Then I have provided valuable specific information.

I was asked the question...what kind of fishing do you do.

The general broad explanation would be the summarized points 1-8 above I would think.

If someone said specifically how you used those methods...then the details other mentioned would come into play. Is flyfishing flyfishing if dragging it behind a moving boat or tube...or if you are using a spinning rod...or is it fairer to call it flyfishing if casting wet or dry and stripping in. Then do you call the other trolling?

If casting a walleye jig called jigging in the broad sense or should it be called spin fishing when using a spinning rod?

I agree that will any of the 1-8 above with the exception of noodling...I know there are lots of more specific example of subcategories of fishing...then variations on the subcategories.

Cheers

Kevin

[Cal]

OK.

Lots of great ideas...now to summarize...

1) Flyfishing

2) Bait Fishing

3) Trolling

4) Ice fishing

5) Spin Fishing

6) Noodling

7) Spear fishing

8) Hand lining

All of the above may also be further broken down to:

a) fishing from shore

b) fishing from a boat

c) walk and wade

I would think that other more specific comments like bobbers, jigging etc. are all different methods within the styles or should I say styles within the methods? For instance you can use bobbers or jigs with a spinning gear. Mooching would be trolling or bait fishing. Surf casting would be spin fishing from shore or walk and wade.



I agree...to the degree that what you are saying...these different ways of fishing...could be lumped into categories 1-8 above. I saw a tropical fishing show where they used kites to catch needlefish. Bait was a sticky spider web. I would categorize this in the hand line group.

Any thoughts anyone on the above? Is there any type of fishing that can not be lumped into 1-8 above?

With your 8 classification list you have succeeded in elaborating in some areas but not in otheres. This is the problem, once you start breaking it up into more than 3-4 groups where do you stop? I dont think you can stop at eight and evenly and consistantly cover the subject of fishing.

[Sundancefisher]

With your 8 classification list you have succeeded in elaborating in some areas but not in otheres. This is the problem, once you start breaking it up into more than 3-4 groups where do you stop? I dont think you can stop at eight and evenly and consistantly cover the subject of fishing.

Curious what you would say are other similarly broad categories that would fall under these sort of broad categories...that would not fit in these.

I could see how trolling could fall under spin fishing...but I categorized it differently to lump in trolling with a fly rod, spinning rod, mooching for salmon or running fast squid for sails.

bait fishing could be under trolling while mooching but most people would say dragging anything behind a boat under power is trolling.

Jigging, flipping, bobber fishing etc...I see those as even more detailed under the 8.

It is an interesting topic for sure.

If you were to make the broadest of categories...what 3 or 4 would you choose?

[Cal]

You gave spin fishing and hand lining their own categories, if your going to specificly break it up equipment wise then I think you should include baitcasting. Personaly I would have given none of these their own category. Same with trolling, yes it can become very specialized but jigging and baitfishing can get just as specialised and you havnt given them their own category.

Personaly I would break it up as Fly Fishing, Fishing with lures, and fishing with live bait. When you buy one of the excelent books from the Fishing and Hunting Library this is usualy how they break it down. A little write up at the begining on the various equipment and some elaboration under those three categorys of the variations and conditions that are relevent to the subject and you have all your subject well covered and your information well organized.

[duffy4]

Fishing:


-Comercial--gill net--trap net--seine--hook and line...

-Subsistence--gill net--hook and line...

-Sport--hook and line
--Bait
--Lure


Lure-- Fly--spinner--spoon--plug--jig--...


Method--cast and let sit--cast and retrieve--vertical jig--cast and drift--troll--...

Gear--Fly rod and reel--bait-caster--spinning outfit--trolling rod and reel--...

Place--From shore--wadding--from a boat--ice fishing

Lake--stream--river--pond



Wow there are heaps of sub categories one could break it down into. Which is good for outdoor writers who do fishing articles on all aspects, all species and all places they can figure out.



"How To Ice Fish For Goldeye In Rivers With Flies"

[mustardb]

Easy:
1. Those who do it.
2. Those poor bastards who don't.

X2

[Albertafisher]

Spey fishing :)