The Asian Angler August 2014 Digital Issue - Malaysia - English | Page 192

Skill Enhancers

Coarse Fishing Basics
-Terminologies-

By Tengku Izzudin ‘The Guvnor’

Taking a step back from my article on feeder fishing

last month, let’s look at a bit more on the definitions
and also the terminologies of coarse fishing. One
might be able to browse online for many coarse fishing articles but might get swarmed with strange jargon. So let’s try to decode them a bit.
Coarse Fishing
The English definition for coarse fishing would be the
pursuit of freshwater fish (or coarse fish) with rod and
line excluding that of trout and salmon (or game fish).
The more popular coarse fish species include roach
(rutilus rutilus), bream (abramis brama), perch (perca
fluviatilis), tench (tinca tinca), barbel (barbus barbus),
chub (Squalius cephalus), and the carp family (crucian, common, linear, leather). Of course European
fish are very different from our local species hence the
techniques and tackle used are somewhat different.
The normal coarse fishing techniques are basically
float and bottom fishing, but the similarity with our local fishing almost ends there.