I like baitcasters. Cast nets for bait fish and cane poles at times.

A really enjoyable, and underrated way to fish is with ultra light poles and 2lb line and go after Bluegill. Those Bluegill fight hard for their size and taste better than any fish you can find in a restaurant.

My aim is to have fun and eat fish because if God didn't mean for us to eat fish He wouldn't have made them so tasty. How's that for a solid argument?

My style is to sit on my rear end and drink beer. Actually haven't had a beer or anything else while fishing in a long long time. But if I could choose a style it would be that.

While I have on many occasions walked up and down rivers for trout and small mouth my favorite way/place to fish is a small lake or large pond in the mountains where I can set up camp and relax, then bring my fish back to the campsite and cook them with wild foraged plants and mushrooms.

I've got two ponds on my place, one just under an acre, and the other just at two acres. 

The larger pond has largemouth bass, catfish and bluegills that  I stocked.  It also has other species that nature stocked for me. 

And right now, I just stocked tome tilapia for weed control.  They will die this winter when the water cools off.  When they do, I rake them out and put them out for the buzzards.  Last year, I had two bald eagles show up to eat them.

Both were stock ponds, I had the larger dug out about 10 years ago when we were in a drought.

Been fishing since I was old enough to hold a rod.

Never done any sea fishing, never lived near a coast

Coarse fishing in the uk  is quite different to fishing in the states.

Over here carp is the king. People will happily spend several days camped at a fishery for just one bite.

In my youth I used to go fish at local limepits and nature area.
Don't think I ever caught anything, but you could see the fish swimming about, big buggers. It was just a great way to chill out and spend a day in  a beautiful location.

Did some fly fishing in my even more distant youth. The chap who designed the electronics for concorde taught my to flyfish, stayed with him and his family one summer.  He's long dead now, but a great chap.

https://youtu.be/262YEfXn154

I want to do this so bad lol...

Yeah we have a similiar thing over here. called pole fishing. These days usually carbon fibre, a 10 metre pole can weigh around a lb.

Yeah i know they're looked on as vermin in canada and the states.
Carp are actually good eating.

Which causes problems in the uk. Polish immigrants/workers like to eat carp - it's a traditional christmas dish as well.
So you get confrontations and fights between the polish who take the carp and the brits who - essentially - worship them.

Pretty much every big carp in the uk has a name and known history.

Some of the big lakes in france they can grow over 100lb.

Think my biggest was around 16lb.

couple years back me and my dad and my mate dave went for a days fishing.
We had fun. At one point I was trying to help dave get a bite and my rod decided to aim for the water. I didn't swear - exactly - but there was some ripe language, shall we say and rapid movement on my part
I did land the fish.

Anyway, towards the end of the day a guy in a car drove up and stopped.
He thanked us for giving him and his wife so much entertainment. He and his wife had been fishing in the next door pond - not that far away. And had been enjoying our banter. Apparently when my rod headed for the water his wife laughed so hard she nearly fell of her chair.

Always good to be of service

Dave still hasn't caught a decent carp.

he did catch a small eel on the canal while i was there, many many years ago. I had to unhook it as he wouldn't go near it.
To hear him tell it these days, it was the midgard serpents bigger brother !

Unfortunately due to over fishing of the elvers - big eels are dying out in the uk. Shame as eel is probably the best fish to hot smoke there is.

I had another new experience with a friend today catching river prawns for bait , although all the fish we caught were not worth keeping the process was very enjoyable and I feel a combination or handline fishing , netting and blowfishing could be me !!

i fish with my sling...period.  used to run deep sea charters years ago offshore.  it sucked.  sling fishing is easy.  if u do not know how to do it, then u r not a true slinger.  it involves nothing but a flat rock and ur sling in a small pool with fishes.  done it many times.