Coarse fish include barbel, bream, carp, chub, perch, pike and roach and are mostly inedible. During the match the fish are confined in a keepnet. Sea fishing is practised from piers, beaches, rocks, harbour walls and boats. Most of the fish caught are edible and are rarely released. In matches sea fish are weighed at dead weight.
Fish targeted include shark, cod, conger eel, turbot, plaice and dogfish.
Licences are not required though charges may be made for the use of the pier, etc. There is no close season for sea fishing. Freshwater game anglers aim to catch salmon, trout and grayling. Only undersized non-migratory trout and salmon parr are spared. Artificial flies are used to deceive the fish into impaling itself on the hook.