Sentence examples for rod fishermen from inspiring English sources
But many rod fishermen and conservationists say the industry needs more, not less regulation which would put up costs and reduce profitability still further.
And although the mechanisation and computerisation of feeding has vastly increased productivity, cost pressures are also likely to force the fish farmers to group their cages together into bigger units.That will draw the wrath of rod fishermen, who blame the spread of fish farming and the parasites that live on farmed fish for falling numbers of wild salmon in Scottish rivers.
Instead of launching drift nets or putting out a rod and line, fishermen round up the tuna in a shallow pool.
The southern shoreline was dotted with fishermen, rods propped beside them.
Noodlers are often placed at the bottom of the fishing hierarchy, he said, with rod-and-reel fishermen and their expensive equipment at the top.
In what could be seen as fishing's class warfare, traditional rod-and-reel fishermen say noodlers tarnish the reputation of the up-and-coming sport of catfishing.
In an attempt to prevent the tradition from dying out and to protect local stocks from being fished into oblivion, the local authorities have assigned the Tsugaru Strait for the exclusive use of Oma's 60 rod-and-line fishermen.
He swims a mile every day and is an expert fisherman with rod and spear.
But at the far end of the harbour, just where a sunlit wall turns a corner and where huge higgledy-piggledy blocks of stone or concrete have been dumped in the sea to prevent erosion, there is a fisherman, his rod propped against one of these cubes, the most solid and three-dimensional thing in the image.
By doing this, rod-makers shrewdly appealed to the way most fishermen road-test a rod: in a fly shop parking lot, where, inevitably, they try to cast as far as they can.
Competition for that particular catch is a step beyond fellow fishermen boasting bigger rods – the rivals for this piscine prize are actually several dozen grizzly bears instead.
