When did fly-fishing come to be regarded as a patrician activity and coarse-fishing as a plebeian one?

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The large stretch of water being covered extends across 50 square miles over two loughs which attract a high level of leisure activity including fishing, sailing, canoeing and over-the-water flying.

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For many villages along the coastal area, fishing is the only economic activity to provide decent jobs and continues therefore to attract people looking for a decent living.

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Fishing is the main economic activity along the coast but ask the fishermen how the work is going and many complain fish stocks are dwindling partly because of the activities of local and foreign trawlers.

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Some cater to one activity, such as golf, skiing or fly-fishing.

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About 44 million Americans spend time fishing, according to the American Sports Fishing Association, making it the country's No. 1 leisure activity.

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Here you will find an early-morning scene of intense and pungent activity when colourfully clad Koli fisherwomen sort the catch being unloaded from fishing boats at the quay.

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On Perhentian Besar - the larger of the two islands - the main hub of activity ('activity' consisting primarily of lounging on the beach, swimming and watching fishing boats roll by) is a quarter-mile stretch of beach between Abdhul's Chalets and Tuna Bay Island Resort.

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