You need to be able to take time to research, plan and make moves, and wait for the fish to bite. A fisherman must be able read his surroundings in order to succeed. It is important to observe the environment, the water conditions, the movements of the fish, and the equipment that works.

Fishers and related fishing workers typically do the following:

1. Locate fish with the use of fish-finding equipment.
2. Steer vessels and operate navigational instruments.
3. Maintain engines, fishing gear, and other onboard equipment by making minor repairs.

Fishermen have an intimate relationship with our marine ecosystems working hard everyday to catch the local seafood that ends up in our markets, on our menus, and eventually in our stomachs.

Daily Life of a Fisherman: A fisherman leaves his home at the break of dawn with his fishing nets, bait and stick. He heads for the banks of the river where his boat is tied or he sits on a rocky cliff by the side of the river. He checks his fishing net and bait for the last time and sets sail.

The Fishermen is a story about four brothers - Ikenna, Boja, Obembe, and Ben - whose childish curious adventure of fishing led their family into simultaneous heartbreaking scenes of pain and death; after the four brothers crossed path with Abulu, a notorious local madman in Akure, who was known for his evil prophesies.

A fisherman is a man who catches fish as a job or for sport.

Grief, and what it makes of the people caught up in and then spat out of its wake, is the central theme of John Langan's The Fisherman.

This book explores some dark themes including family conflicts, paranoia and madness. One of the underlying themes is political unrest, as evidenced in the book during the historical period of the 1993 presidential elections.

If you go fishing with a rod and a fishing line with a hook at the end of it, you're an angler. An angler might fish off the end of a dock, or from a rowboat in the middle of a lake. Anglers are distinguished by the fact that they fish with metal hooks, and they often release the fish they catch.

The verb "angle" has been used to mean "to fish" since the late 15th century, and "angler" as meaning "one who fishes with a hook and line" has been in use since the mid-16th century. “Ank” also is the base of the Greek "ankos" (a bend) and the English words “ankle” and "anchor."

fish story. An improbable, boastful tale, as in He came up with some fish story about his winnings at the track. This expression alludes to the tendency of fishermen to exaggerate the size of their catch. [ Early 1800s]

The Fisherman is a somber meditation on the consequences of loss and the toll it takes on the human spirit. This book is written in the style of a memoir, in which the narrator, Abe, recounts certain life experiences that he is trying to come to terms with.