Coastal

You have chosen to go coastal fishing on foot. You can go cockling along the sands or fishing for salmon with a haaf net or shrimps with a push net in the shallow waters. Let's try push-netting. Fisherman have traditionally used this method to catch shrimps. Your net will consist of a wooden frame with a net bag attached that you will push along the water's edge to catch the shrimps.

Cockling on the sands is something you might want to try. Whole families have traditionally walked miles on the exposed sands in all weathers to exploit the cockle beds. Dangers include quicksands, deep hidden channels, water-filled hollows, sea mists which quickly disorientate, and fast-flowing tides. Bending over on the sands all day using forks (craams) and rakes (drags) to gather the cockles is exposed and monotonous work.