A recent post about flint hooks kind of got me thinking abou how much I love to fish. I thought I would share this story with you all.
There are so many ways to fish without a hook why would someone even bother making a flint hook? I have caught hundreds of fish with my bare hands. It is not hard to do. You just have to know how to do it. The first time was by accident. A couple of guys came to a pool where I was trout fishing with bait. It was Late August early September. Fly fisherman look down there noses at guys like me. I catch fish I use what ever means possible to catch them. They just looked at me and waded right out in front of me in an arrogant way. I moved a little closer to the falls I was fishing near. I catch some movement out of the corner of my eye I just watch that spot and boom there it is again. Trout were trying to go up the falls. So I sat down and watched the two guys hog the mid stream ( little did they know they were right on top of the trout) and boom there it is again a nice Rainbow jumps into the falls right next to the rock I was sitting on and struggeled to move up as it did I just reached over and grabbed it. I showed the two guys who were not catching a thing. LOL About five minutes later another this time a brown. I snatched it right up no trouble. LOL showed the two guys again. They did not believe I was catching these by hand and stopped and watched while i caught a third that way. One of them tells me that it isnt real fishing. Fly fishermen can be arrogant when talking to a bait guy. To this day if I go trout fishing I flip rocks I dig in banks covered in leaves for worms . I will stop at a pond and try to get some pearch bugs out of the muck. My vest was always loaded with stuff I was foraging up . Old gear, rusty lures I had found, I caught a trout once on a small yellow jackets nest. It still had larve in it so I guess the trout can smell that when it is in the water. My point is if I can figure this out when not in survival mode just imagine what the poeple who lived survival daily could do. What secrets they had for catching fish . I once just stood near a creek with a bat in my hand. I just spit right into the pool and a little fish swam up and looked at the spit that now had concentric rings moving outward and away from the sudden movement from the fall of spit into the water. As it looked up I swung the bat. I took me home a fish for dinner. Yeah that one was so big the picture weighed ten pounds. Now some of what I just wrote is factual. Some of it well maybe my kids believe it. LOL
There are so many ways to fish without a hook why would someone even bother making a flint hook? I have caught hundreds of fish with my bare hands. It is not hard to do. You just have to know how to do it. The first time was by accident. A couple of guys came to a pool where I was trout fishing with bait. It was Late August early September. Fly fisherman look down there noses at guys like me. I catch fish I use what ever means possible to catch them. They just looked at me and waded right out in front of me in an arrogant way. I moved a little closer to the falls I was fishing near. I catch some movement out of the corner of my eye I just watch that spot and boom there it is again. Trout were trying to go up the falls. So I sat down and watched the two guys hog the mid stream ( little did they know they were right on top of the trout) and boom there it is again a nice Rainbow jumps into the falls right next to the rock I was sitting on and struggeled to move up as it did I just reached over and grabbed it. I showed the two guys who were not catching a thing. LOL About five minutes later another this time a brown. I snatched it right up no trouble. LOL showed the two guys again. They did not believe I was catching these by hand and stopped and watched while i caught a third that way. One of them tells me that it isnt real fishing. Fly fishermen can be arrogant when talking to a bait guy. To this day if I go trout fishing I flip rocks I dig in banks covered in leaves for worms . I will stop at a pond and try to get some pearch bugs out of the muck. My vest was always loaded with stuff I was foraging up . Old gear, rusty lures I had found, I caught a trout once on a small yellow jackets nest. It still had larve in it so I guess the trout can smell that when it is in the water. My point is if I can figure this out when not in survival mode just imagine what the poeple who lived survival daily could do. What secrets they had for catching fish . I once just stood near a creek with a bat in my hand. I just spit right into the pool and a little fish swam up and looked at the spit that now had concentric rings moving outward and away from the sudden movement from the fall of spit into the water. As it looked up I swung the bat. I took me home a fish for dinner. Yeah that one was so big the picture weighed ten pounds. Now some of what I just wrote is factual. Some of it well maybe my kids believe it. LOL
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