Recreational boat fishing
recreational fishing on water vessels
Recreational boat fishing is recreational fishing using surface watercraft (boats) as the activity platform. Unlike commercial/artisanal boat fishing, where fishing are conducted from professional fishing vessels and more high-yielding fishing techniques such as nets, fish traps, longlining/trotlining and trolling are used, angling with rods is by far the most common recreational boat fishing technique, followed by bowfishing and spearfishing. Compared to the land-based bank fishing and surf fishing, where the fishing activities conducted by casting from a river bank or a shoreline, boating allows access to deeper fishing grounds farther from the shore and thus more diverse species of game fish.
Inshore
Inshore boat fishing is fishing from a boat in easy sight of land and in water less than about 30 metres deep. The boat can be either sailboats, human-powered watercraft such as a dinghy, row boat, kayak or canoe, or light motorboats such as a runabout, inflatable, fanboat or small cabin cruiser. Inshore boats are typically small enough to be carried atop of a vehicle roof rack or be towed on a boat trailer, and are much more affordable than offshore fishing boats. They are typically deployed in inland waterbodies such as rivers, lakes/reservoirs and lagoons, as well as estuaries and shallow seas inside bays. In recent times, kayak fishing has become popular form of inshore boat fishing, especially on relatively calm bodies of water ("flatwater").
Anglers either use an uptide sea rod between 9 and 10 feet in length to cast from the boat or a shorter downtide rod between 6 and 8 feet. Lines are usually between 18 pounds and 50 pounds breaking strain dependent on the species of fish being targeted.
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