什麼是釣魚

一種捕魚的娛樂活動，基本工具有魚竿、線和魚鈎。釣魚是人類最早的一種捕魚方法。17世紀晚期18世紀初期，人們發明了一種金屬圈或環，套在魚竿的一端，使釣線成為活動的，可把魚鈎甩到更遠處。整個20世紀魚具發展很快，魚竿越變越短越輕，但力量不變，由木製發展成玻璃纖維制；線圈變得又輕又結實，固定件加多；魚線由馬尾發展到尼龍單絲線。今日釣魚的方法包括了︰餌釣法（淡水釣魚），將餌附在魚鈎上，放至水底或任何深度，餌有多種；如將餌系在魚線底部，無浮標，只憑手感覺魚是否上鈎，此法稱為底餌法。浮標法一般用於深水釣魚。曳繩釣法是把活魚、死魚或其他餌物附在魚具上，在緩緩行駛的小船的拖曳下，餌物不斷翻轉。投餌法或稱旋餌法，是將天然餌物或人工餌物投在水中而使之不斷翻轉，狀如受傷或病弱的魚，食肉類魚往往受其引誘而上鈎。此外還有利用天然的蠅、其他昆蟲或人工蠅狀餌物的蠅餌法。鹹水釣魚也可以使用上述種種方法。

fishing

Sport of catching fish, freshwater or saltwater, typically with rod, line, and hook. Fishing is as old as the human ability to use tools to capture prey. The first significant modern innovations, including use of a reel, a rod with line guides, and a hook with an offset point, came in the late 17th and early 18th century. Horsehair was used as line until the mid-19th cent, when it was replaced by textile materials, in turn replaced in the 1930s by nylon. Wood and bamboo rods yielded to rods of fiberglass and other synthetic materials. Forms of sport fishing practiced today include fly fishing (freshwater), in which a fly-like hook is repeatedly cast upon the water surface to attract biting fish; bait fishing (fresh- and saltwater), in which live or artificial bait is set or drawn below the surface; and big-game fishing (saltwater), in which heavy-duty tackle is used to land large marine species (including tuna, marlin, and swordfish) from a motorized boat.