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TL:DR
I've had poor luck using lake lures in anything but lakes, but a coastal lure seems to work just fine in any body of saltwater. Anyone else notice this? Do we know how this works yet?

Explanation

At a glance, it's simple to give fishable areas four categories:

Saltwater
Freshwater
Dunefishing
Cloudfishing

The last two on that list seem to be static as of ARR release. The first two, however, are given classifications if lures are to be believed. Those that I can cite here from the lures I own are:

Saltwater - Coastal
Saltwater - Marsh
Saltwater - Other

Freshwater - Lake
Freshwater - Marsh
Freshwater - Other

Each of these areas may have a population of fishable critter that is stratified (e.g. surface, bottom, neither surface nor bottom) or simply tied to specific lures to represent this stratification, but for now I'd like to see if we can understand what properties the body of water has that are critical to successful or specific fishing.

Please share explanations, real data, or entertaining anecdotes below.

Thanks!