French Fishing Vocabulary
On this page you’ll find a complete list of French fishing vocabulary words. Overall, these words are unique to the French language and don’t have much in common with their English counterparts. Thus, they’ll take some extra time to learn. To say, “fishing” in French you say: “pêche”, which is pronounced paysh.
| la pêche fishing | la canne à pêche fishing rod |
la ligne line |
| l’amorce bait | la boîte d’équipemnt tackle box |
le moulinet reel |
| le plomb weight | l’appât lure | l’hameçon fishhook |
| l’œillet eye | le barbillon barb | la mouche fly |
| l’épuisette landing net |
la bourriche keep net |
la pêche en eau douce freshwater fishing |
| la pêche à la mouche fly fishing | la pêche hauturière deep sea fishing |
la pêche au lancer en mer surfcating |
| lancer to cast |
attraper to catch |
ramener to reel in |
| prendre au filet to net |
lâcher to release |
amorcer to bait |
| mordre to bite |
la matériel de pêche tackle | l’imperméable wafterproofs |
| le permis de pêche fishing license |
la pêche maritime sea/marine fishing |
le panier de pêche creel |
| la pêche sous-marine spearfishing |
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