page_title: Fishing in Egypt
section_title: Fishing Equipment
hierarchical_section_title: Fishing in Egypt / Fishing Equipment
caption_attribution_description: English: Fishermen in Alexandria, Egypt
context_page_description: Fishing in Egypt includes every form of fishing as a hobby or professional nowadays. In Egypt, fishing is really developed and the country is considered as one of the best fishing destinations in the world.
context_section_description: In ancient Egypt, smaller fish were caught with weir-baskets and dragnets made from willow branches, as well as hooks, harpoons, and lines with the hooks ranging from eight millimetres and eighteen centimetres. Fishing rods tended not to be used, as the fisherman would use his finger to support the line, using clay to weigh the hooks down. For bait, usually, bread or dates would have been used. After being caught, the fish would have been clubbed and then placed in baskets.
  Big nets are used for commercial fishing where the focus is on quantity, but otherwise, for trolling, shore fishing and line fishing, the equipment used is essentially the same as is used in other parts of the world. In the Nasser Lake, the trolling rods are of 20–30 lb class and between 7 and 9 feet, alongside multipliers that are able to hold more than 200 yards of 30lb line. For shore fishing, 10–12 feet should be the size of the rod, with reels big enough to hold at least 200 yards of line. The lines used tend to be very strong thanks to the strong species of fish found, a 30-40lb monofilament is usually used for trolling and usually, for heavy-duty shore fishing, a 20lb B.S is needed.
  For the species of fish found in Egypt please see List of fishes in the Red Sea it was also known as the best.
caption: Fishermen in Alexandria, Egypt
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