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Preferences of sport anglers regarding age

Generally, sport fishing has its tradition as one of the oldest sports and dates from the eighteenth century. It can be defined as fishing for recreation and competition. Angling, as an activity of catching fish with a fish rod, dates back to Greek and Egyptian times when people are and then caught fish recreational at leisure (Cowy, 2001). The International Sport Fishing Federation (CIPS) today has over 50 million members and tournaments in over 20 disciplines. A total of 64 anglers participated in the study, of which 62 male and 2 female aged 20 to 69 years (M = 44.50, SD = 11.83). Out of the total number, 60 participants are engaged in sport and four in recreational fishing. They have been actively fishing for an average of 30 years (M = 30.09, SD = 12.99). The results are examined by basic descriptive statistics comparing three age groups. The preferences of fishing techniques and disciplines of the youngest (20 to 39 years) participants, those in middle adulthood (40 to 50 years) and the oldest (51 to 69 years) were analyzed. Responses to the survey questionnaire "Survey on coarse fishing" were collected online via the Google form in March 2021. Participants most often go fishing once a week (81.3%). Fishing with a pole is the favourite technique in coarse fishing for both, the youngest (55%) and the oldest participants (54.5%). Anglers between the ages of 40 and 50 in coarse fishing equally prefer the fishing techniques with a pole and fishing with a reel (40.9%). All of them considers whip fishing to be the easiest technique (85%). However, for the youngest anglers, pole fishing is the most demanding technique (60%), for middle- aged anglers fishing with a reel (54.5%), and for the oldest are equally demanding techniques with a pole (45.5%) and fishing with a reel (50%). In the conducted research, sport anglers estimate that the most physically demanding technique is catching big fish with a pole on flowing water (64.1%). The most mentally demanding technique for early and middle-aged anglers is fast fishing of small fish with a pole and fast fishing of small fish with a whip. However, for the oldest anglers, fast fishing of small fish by whip and fishing of big fish with a pole on flowing water are equally demanding techniques (36.4%).

sport fishing, fishing techniques and disciplines, coarse fishing

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