Patent ID: 7156393

Claim:
A method of playing a fishing board game, including the steps of providing a board illustration a fishing area, dividing the fishing area into a plurality of fishing zones, providing a series of squares surrounding the fishing area, groups of zone squares corresponding to the fishing zones, each group of zone squares having a start square, named fish squares, penalty square, a bonus square, and one or more lose a turn squares, a deck of bonus cards, a deck of penalty cards, and a game die and a fish die, and including the further steps of allocating a player to each zone and starting on the respective start square to receive the regulations for that zone, playing the game die to move around the series of squares, and when landing on a fish square playing both dice to indicate whether a fish has been caught by the fish die having a greater number than the game die, the difference being the size of the fish to gain points, and if the fish die is not grater than the game die no fish has been caught.