What is the difference between inshore and offshore fishing?

Question

What is the difference between inshore and offshore fishing?

Answer 1

I answered this one a few months ago:

In saltwater, offshore fishing is fishing far enough from shore that the bottom structure doesn't matter. You get tuna and marlin in water thousands of feet deep, trolling and looking for moving fish or schools of fish. That's offshore fishing.

Inshore, you look for fish which are orienting on the bottom structure, whether you're fishing near the surface or on the bottom. While you don't always anchor for this kind of fishing, the water is shallow enough that you could. In general, inshore fishing is done within a few miles of shore, offshore is farther out.

Answer 2

offshore fishing is over deep water away from shore.Open seas.

Inshore fishing is over shallower waters close to shore. Bays and estuaries.

Answer 3

what they said:

adding only use green line inshore and clear line offshore

Answer 4

For me, inshore is just that... being located in east central Florida, the Indian River Lagoon system all brackish and all west of the Atlantic Ocean... getting out of your boat here in most cases will land you in water no deeper than you are tall...

Beyond that, I call it offshore and deep-sea... not to mention a lot of money.