Fishing — a vacation for a real man

    The family spends day after day on the beach. The children happily splash in the sea, your wife works on a perfect tan under the umbrella and goes for swims. You have already inspected the local reefs with a mask, thoroughly studied the schedule and repertoire of the beach bar, and you are bored. You look longingly out to sea — you want adventure, the hunt for sea monsters. You want to go fishing.
If you like last-minute deals, Egypt is surely your favorite country, and all year round it offers amazing deep-sea fishing in the Red Sea. Freshwater fishing is also allowed — on Lake Nasser — but the huge bass that live there are protected by Egyptian law and must be released after a photo session.
A day-long sea trip with fishing on a snow-white comfortable yacht is a pleasure you can share with your family. Your wife will enjoy seeing the wonderful reefs with a mask, and the children will be thrilled by a pod of dolphins you are sure to meet in the open sea.  
But you can also gather a group of 5–6 men and head out on a real multi-day fishing trip farther from shore. Along the whole Red Sea coast there are many hotels, divers, people in fins who use various body creams. When they dive, these scents enter the water and scare off large fish. The catch farther from shore can be simply fantastic compared to one-day fishing.
The main trophies of the Red Sea are simply striking. Fish a meter to one and a half meters long are not uncommon here. The largest specimens include grouper, sailfish, predatory barracuda, caranx (trevally), tuna, wahoo, parrotfish and dolphinfish. Smaller catches are also varied: scad (horse mackerel), bonito, red snapper, silver grunt, emperorfish (Lethrinus), bumphead parrotfish, perch and reef shark (these must be released immediately after capture).
In daylight hours it is best to catch fish in the Red Sea by sea trolling; at night fishing from an anchored or drifting boat using casting-drifting is more effective.

    Fishing enthusiasts can find their happiness in Turkey too. If you have already bought a trip, Turkey will give you many fishing experiences!  Everyone likes to say that there is no fish in the Mediterranean, that there is very little of it, that you can't catch anything. But all the restaurants offer a fish menu and seafood every day, local markets overflow with stalls of fresh fish, and besides that they also sell live fish. So you should only believe in yourself — you'll still catch your golden fish in Turkey.
There are two ways to fish in Turkey — organized trips and fishing on your own. If you brought sea tackle with you, you can fish from the nearest pier. Good bites of decent fish such as mullet, sea bass, gilthead bream (çupra) and bonito usually occur between 7 and 8 p.m. or from 6 to 8 a.m. Such fish are best caught somewhere away from the beach and people, in a secluded rocky spot. It's best to ask the locals where the fish are biting.
On freshwater trips you will be taken to a lake or river. They'll slaughter a ram, prepare shashlik, and at the same time grill your catch over coals. This adventure is more like a picnic.
For sea fishing tourists are taken not far from the shore. Such a trip is also more of an entertainment. But you can personally ask the captain of the yacht or motorboat to go fishing with you for real. They will set an exact time, prepare all the gear, and invite you to a fishing trip — night or day.
Tours to Tunisia give an excellent opportunity to fish in the Mediterranean according to local fishing traditions. There are three ways of fishing in Tunisia:
1. Night fishing using a lamp, where light acts as the bait. This method catches blue or pelagic fish: sardines, sardinella, mackerel, bonito, anchovy and tuna. The spectacle of night fishing is very picturesque — boats with lamps line up one after another over the night sea surface.
2. Coastal fishing for "white fish." Fishing is done along the coast in the morning and evening. White fish include groupers, sea bream and red mullet. 
3. Trawling, that is fishing while the vessel is underway. Many species of fish and squid are caught this way.
Hotels in the UAE are among the most comfortable and beautiful in the world. Some of them look like true masterpieces of 21st-century architecture. Here fishing in the Persian Gulf is offered.
You will be provided with an excellent modern yacht with GPS navigation, with which the fishermen will take you to the fishing spot. Fishing on motor boats is also offered. Huge fish are not uncommon here — they bite so much you'll barely keep up removing the catch from the hook. Yachts are very comfortable and cost from $170 per hour. Perch, tuna, barracuda, sailfish and small sharks are the main local catch.
A tour operator in the Dominican Republic will tell you in advance about the possibilities of ocean fishing, during which the swell is somewhat stronger than on the sea. An instructor will rig and adjust the tackle, help with the catch and prepare a tasty lunch from it. Fish in the Caribbean Sea vary — mackerel, barracudas, tunas, sharks.