What is angling?

What is angling?

• Method of fishing by means of an "angle" (hook);
• Angling is a principal method of sport fishing;
• Catch and release fishing is increasingly practiced by recreational fishermen;
• Commercial fisheries also use angling methods such as longlining or trolling;
For large groups of people angling is a sport and they organize themselves in clubs and compete against each other or other clubs in accordance with specifically set rules.
For large groups of people angling is commercial activity (commercial fishing), which is fishing for profit.
For large groups of people, angling (subsistence angling/fishing) is fishing for survival.
This blog is not aimed at the above described groups of people.
The blog is aimed at specific group of people practicing Recreational fishing or fishing for pleasure.

I would like to further clarify that the blog is intended for this segment of recreational anglers, which are not so lucky to live on the coast, but equally (and some may argue, more than equally) love the ocean and the precious little time they can spend fishing - call them beginners, occasional anglers, inland based rock and surf anglers, “holiday warriors”, “vaalies” etc.

And finally, I would like to state that the blog is confined only to rock & surf angling, for edible fish using bait organisms and fish as bait.