Quote Originally Posted by RoadToad View Post
Glad you had an enjoyable trip! I'm from Delaware, and I've done a lot of ocean fishing, but I don't know how much you'd call "deep-sea." Does 75' or so qualify? The charter boats I go on just go after whatever's in season: flounder, tautog, or sea bass mostly. But you never know what someone's going to pull up, like a sand shark, a skate, an oyster cracker, or God knows what else! That's a lot of the fun, trying to identify the strange things people catch sometimes.
Technically deep sea would have to be 1000 fathoms (6000 feet) or deeper. Since it is impossible to fish that deep with conventional equipment the term deep-sea fishing would be a oxymoron. A more commonly used term at least in the south part of the country would be offshore fishing. I hear the term blue-water fishing sometimes but that usually refers to the pelagic species.