Corrico

A fishing method used in Madeira in which a boat is kept moving while it tows one or two lines, each with a hook at the end carrying the bait. The movement forces the bait to glide not far below the surface of the water. The species best suited to this kind of fishing, which is carried out at night, are the bicuda, the enchova and the serralhão, but exceptionally the caneja and other fish that habitually roam the surface are also caught. The bait is almost always a small whole fish, a chicharro. In this it differs from the corripo, the method adopted in Portugal, where a piece of white rag, called the amostra, is fastened to the hook and the deceived fish takes it for tempting bait.