This document discusses the differences between recreational fishing and commercial fishing. Recreational anglers typically enjoy the outdoors and may bring home fish occasionally, while commercial fishermen rely on catching and selling fish as their livelihood. To be successful professionally, fishermen get advice from local experts, test different bait strategies to determine what species can be caught reliably in a given area, and either build a larger fishing operation or develop specialized techniques that work for their needs. The key is adapting methods through experience to optimize fish catches.

1. Fishing as a pastime hobby
or
Making living as a fisherman ?
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2. Typical way to catch fish…
• Identify problmem: ”I want fish”
• Buy best equipment, find the prettiest spot, throw your bait
out, enjoy great weather and wait for the fishes to arrive
• And in the evening go to supermarket to buy ”something” to
bring home
• And sometimes tell the biggest fish story…

3. Professional fisherman needs to
catch fish ! How do they do it ?

4. Get hints from the locals and learn
from the masters – no two places
are similar
Striped Bass
• Large
• High value
• Rare
Large Mouth Bass
• Medium
• High value
• Moderate Freq.
Crappie
• Small
• Moderate value
• Plentiful
Catfish
• Small to large
• Low value
• Moderate

5. Have patience to pivot and learn.
Different targets need different
baits.

6. After mastering it, it is time to
scale - build your own flotilla and
conquer the seas

7. Or do it your own special way…

8. How professionals catch fish, and
make living out of it
• Get hints from the locals and learn from the masters
• Decide on strategy – what you want to catch ?
• Test drive your hypothesis, pivot again and again. Finetube
your baits to suit targets
• And then scale and build your flotilla
• Or someties doing it special way might be sufficient…

9. Happy fishing…