there angling for hours together and end up not catching any fish simply because you havent really studied the ocean and havent used the right technique especially in sea its near the drop offs and structures like sunken ship that youll find a lot of fish because thats where the bigger fish predators find smaller ones also for the safety of anglers its important to understand how the water behaves before venturing outfor 29yearold michael gagarin its the effort and focus that angling requires keep him hooked to it its an enduring sport especially if youre using styles like popping or spinning as you put in so much effort to use the lure against the water it consumes a lot of energy and therefore it keeps you fit also it requires a lot of discipline one needs to know the environment wind conditions patterns of the tide etc along with enjoying the sport anglers believe in promoting sustainable fishing among commercial fishermen angling is about catch and release some of the fish that we catch dont survive as they lose their energy fighting the angler those are the ones that end up on the table but mostly we release them back especially the endangered ones we want to promote this idea of sustainable fishing whenever possible we talk to the local fishermen and tell them to follow sustainable fishing methods generally the kind of fishing methods they follow completely wipe out the fish including the small ones in an area so the predators dont find food and stop coming there also what many dont realise is that these small fish only grow and breed later so when the smaller ones are wiped out it becomes a threat to all the other species as well explains manoj chacko another angler agreeing with manoj is dinesh kumar ravindran in sport fishing we use single hooks on our lines unlike nets used by commercial fishermen in this championship weve used circle hooks which are single hooks that are designed to catch the fish by their cheek so as to not injure them our fishermen too should shift to better methods like longline fishing which is practiced in other countries like maldives and indonesia sums up dinesh another representative of the state in aigfa