Fishing jumped from the water into the computer for many anglers, and you can enjoy it for free once you learn how to find free fishing games online. With an Internet connection your computer will have you virtually wetting your line quickly on the number of fishing games available. Take the time you can find some free entertainment.

Trying everything from fly fishing for trout to deep sea game is accessible via your Internet connection. You can try fishing for species and places that you could only dream about. There are no season, no size or catch limits, no bugs, and no weather to worry about with the computer. The mouse becomes your rod and you have to click to cast.

There are two types of free fishing games: the first type of free games are those that are available for download. Most of these are flash games, the remainder are demos of games that are for sale. The free games are usually in sites that have many games. Some of the games are simple click on a target games while others do have some kind of skill involved. The demos are often 3D versions of games that require the user to use some of their fishing skills to play and catch fish. There are also some things to look for when you strike out on your own looking for games.

Most of the bigger game sites have fishing games within their list of down loadable games. Most are simple two dimensional flash games that are little more than click games, but a few have older versions of better detalied games that are now free. There are many of the same older games on different sites. The game names you can expect to see like "Fishing Craze", "Fishing for Girls", and "Fishing Frenzy". There are times like with most arcade game where the simplest can be the most enjoyable to play.

Sites with fishing games:

Shockwave.com has free version of “Big Mouth Bass 3D” and “Fishing Craze” but you will have to watch a commercial before you can play. http://www.shockwave.com/gamelanding/bmb3d.jsp

BigFishgames.com has “Fishing Frenzy” and “Fishing Craze”. http://www.bigfishgames.com/online-games/genres/1/action-arcade.html

Playbuz has 37 fishing games ranging from "Bass Fishing Pro" and "Fishing Fever" to "Hillbilly Fishing" and “Fish for Girls”.http://www.playbuz.com/games/fishing/1.html

Onlinefishinggames.net has 13 flash games available including “Super Fishing.” http://www.onlinefishinggames.net/

GamesGames.com has 14 games including “Lake Fishing 2” http://www.gamesgames.com/games/fishing/fishing.html

Free Fishing games.biz has over 50 fishing games including “Big Catch,” "Fishing Champion", "Fish Hunter 2", "Sawfish Lagoon", "Big Fish", "Fisher Boy", "Fish for Girls", and "Ice Fishing". http://www.freefishinggames.biz/category/3/Fishing-Games/1.html

There are a few sites that have Demos of for-sale games. This is a great way to try something out before you buy it or even seeing if you want to buy it. Why pay for something before trying it out. The games have more detail in their graphics and choices in where the games are played, which fish you plan to target, and even which kind of fishing lure you would like to use. The for sale part of the video games have more options available, but you can get a look with the free version. There is a great difference in the detail from the free flash games.

Sites with demos:

FlySim has a fly fishing game demo available called “Flysim”. The game take the player into the world of fly fishing. You can choose your species, your fly lure, and how you want to work the fly among other choices. http://www.flysim.com/about/about.html

Big Games Download has two free downloads of “Pro Bass Fishing” and “In-Fisherman”. The Pro Bass Fishing game has 20 different species of fish to go after and the free trial download is 12MB. "In-Fisherman" has 10 different fresh water species to go fish for and the free trial download is 303MB. http://www.biggamedownloads.com/free-sports-games/pro-bass-fishing2003.htm

Keep looking for new sites with new games. New sites and new games have a habit of hopping out of nowhere like a fish breaking the surface on a calm day. When looking for new free fishing games try to remember which games you have already played so you will not have to waste your time trying something you have already tried. Then outdoor games locations like you will find in free deer hunting games or free hunting games. There are many advanced fishing games being played that will soon become obsolete. Once this happens some might become availle online as advertisements for the new games.

Beware though that there are many spam sites waiting like crabs to snatch at your bait. Just make sure you have a good spyware to make sure you don’t end up loaded with adware or spam sites. As with all games sites some games available might not be appropriate for younger players and you might need to keep this in mind when looking around.

Have fun with the fishing games while it might never match the excitement of the outdoors you can still have a good time. And you don’t even have to leave your desk.