POSKETT AT THE VALLEY
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I’m sure a lot of us on here live close to the coast and to some stunning rivers, lakes, ponds and streams. So if you dangle what’s your favourite and why. Puns and serious replies welcome.
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[Other Sport] Sea fishing or Coarse fishing
- Thread starter POSKETT AT THE VALLEY
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Coarse requires skill and craft; sea requires chuck and hope.
- Jul 10, 2003
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I haven't fished for many years, but when I did, all the tastiest stuff came out the sea 
Peacehaven Wild Kids
Well-known member
Sea fishing but not for any particular reason, just for the halibut
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
Sea
Sea fishing mak-rules!
METALMICKY
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- Jan 30, 2004
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Haven't fished since I was a teenager but for me it was coarse. Never mind the guile and all the gear there was something cathartic and serene sitting on a lake or riverbank particularly in the early morning with the mist and the dawn chorus.
prawnsarnies
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- Jan 20, 2010
- 1,111
You missed out game fishing!
Coldeanseagull
Opinionated
You obviously haven't targeted sea species. However, having said that, a lot of coarse fishing involves heaving out overfed cyprinid species who have been bred specifically for the willy waving brigade.
I'm equally at home catching roach, bream and tench as I am catching flounder, bass and sole....you just need to know the venues
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haven't voted as I do both
Can you share some of these plaices?
Coldeanseagull
Opinionated
I'll mullet over, and get back to you
Algernon
Well-known member
It's too tough to catch lions and antelope etc with a rod and line.
Taybha
Whalewhine
Both though prefer chucking and hoping in the sea,which in my humble opinion is far more difficult when conditions are against you,than coarse fishing in lakes when you know the fish are already there and are awaiting their daily feed from anglers, along with the hassle of getting hooked now and then,sometimes twice a day if they've forgotten they'd been hooked earlier 
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I've fished large open beach matches where only a few anglers out of hundreds managed to catch something,this would suggest the skill and watercraft needed to be a successful sea angler is just as high if not higher as a top coarse match angler.
Anyway this isn't the time nor Plaice to discuss this theory.
.I've fished large open beach matches where only a few anglers out of hundreds managed to catch something,this would suggest the skill and watercraft needed to be a successful sea angler is just as high if not higher as a top coarse match angler.
Anyway this isn't the time nor Plaice to discuss this theory.
attila
1997 Club
Sea. If you can't eat it, no point in fishing for it.
Robinjakarta
Well-known member
The same for me in all respects.
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
I used to catch trout in the Arun as a kid and eat them for supper. Something satisfying about eating your own catch.
wunt be druv
Drat! and double drat!
Sea fishing, it is not chuck it and hope, knowing the right venue, the right tide, the right bait, how to present the bait and knowing what species are around at certain times of the year, to sea fish successfully requires a great deal of knowledge and skill, sea fish are wild creatures with their own particular habits. It does not compare with sitting next to a man made lake stuffed full of fish that have all been caught a hundred times already, proper coarse angling on a river or natural lake does take skill and knowledge but the sea is infinitely bigger with vast areas empty of fish and finding them is the challenge.
Sea fishing requires knowledge, but luck is also involved.
All of this. I fished a match on Wednesday that was mostly carp, I was coaching kids/complete beginners yesterday who were really happy to be catching small perch, had a day on the Royalty on Friday catching allsorts in a fabulous location, I’ve got a match on the river this morning that will probably be won with a net of roach and I’m out on a boat after bream, pollock and other stuff on Tuesday (definitely isn’t ’chuck and hope’ at all - the better anglers will almost always catch the most fish, same as coarse fishing). Love all of it.
It’s a very odd feeling being Crodo for a day.
Those who assume I’ve done very little sea fishing would be correct. I’ve also done very little carp fishing. I mostly do river and lake match fishing (never use a pole though) and specimen barbel fishing (best 16lb 2oz).
Oh, and upstream dry fly on chalk streams for wild brownies and a bit of salmon fishing on the Tay (but they’re not included in this thread).
Those who assume I’ve done very little sea fishing would be correct. I’ve also done very little carp fishing. I mostly do river and lake match fishing (never use a pole though) and specimen barbel fishing (best 16lb 2oz).
Oh, and upstream dry fly on chalk streams for wild brownies and a bit of salmon fishing on the Tay (but they’re not included in this thread).