Fishing probably couldn't be considered a genre in itself, for the lack of titles, but over the years, quite a few fishing games have come out, probably starting as far back as the atari 2600 or maybe even earlier.
Over the years, there have been fishing controllers, arcade fishing games, and next gen fishing games.
If you have a favorite fishing game, what is it? You can choose any system from the 70s to 200x.
Me, I really use to like black bass on the NES and super black bass on the genesis.
Sega Marine fishing on the Dreamcast, Black Bass for the NES was cool too.