Recreational boat fishing

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-yieldingfishing 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.