UK fishing help

Simon Adams wrote:
:: Guys,
::
:: I am currently in the process of writing and launching a UK based
:: website that will, among other things, help people find new
:: friends to persue their hobbies. Fishing is one activity that we
:: are concentrating strongly on. I, however, have not fished in a
:: while, and so was wondering if you guys could spare 2 minutes to
:: help me.
::
:: What I need to know, basically, is what the differences between
:: course and game fishing are. Also it would be very helpful if I
:: can generate a list of fish that people commonly go after in the
:: UK.

This site gives the records for coarse fish in the UK but it hasn't been
updated for a while:
http://www.nfsa.org.uk/ntcg/brfc/rec...oarse_fish.htm
All the fish listed there are fished for regularly in this country although
the skelly is now a protected spiecies (I think).
Carp fishing has become an industry by itself and many isheries have sprung
up which contain little else but carp.
Match fishing lakes tend to contain roach, perch, rudd, tench, bream and
maybe barbel and carp but they're all fairly small.
I don't fish rivers myself but if you do you can expect to catch barbel,
grayling, chub and just about anything else on that list.
The main difference between coarse and game fishing is that game fishing is
catching edible fish and in coarse fishing the fish are put back alive...the
methods of catching different spiecies differ greatly too, you are unlikely
to catch gudgeon while fishing for barbel, although if you are trying to
catch pike, you could end up catching a zander!