Learning to Fish Without Hardware – The Fishing Holiday

Learning to Fish Without Hardware

Survival techniques: Fishing for food

The best time to fish is certainly not easy to determine since fish, depending on their species, feed at different times but well determined before day or night.

As a rule, it is best to fish before the dawn or just after dusk, before a storm or when the moon is full or declining. Jumping minnows and circles on the water announce the presence of voracious fish.

Where to fish?

You will choose the best place according to the waters and time of day. In a fast stream and in the heat of the day, try the deep pools located at the bottom of the rapids.

As evening approaches or early in the morning, stretch your bait near the submerged logs, under the slopes and bushes overlooking the surface of the water.

On the lakes, during the summer heat, fish deep.
During the warm season, in the evening and in the early morning, fish in shallow waters.

Find Fishing Bait

Typically, fish will bite to the bait you find in the surrounding waters.
At the water's edge, look for aquatic insects and minnows.
On the shore, worms and terrestrial insects.

When you catch a fish, open it, see what its stomach contains and choose bait of the same kind.
If they are ineffective, use the eyes and intestines of the caught fish for the same purpose.

If worms serve you as bait, they must cover the point of the hook to better deceive the fish.

If minnows are kept, keep them alive and bait them by the back, tail or lips.
When your bait is not alive, do not push it too far into the hook.

You can make artificial decoys with brightly colored cloths, feathers or shiny metal imitating injured minnows.

Make improvised hooks and lines

In survival mode, you probably do not have hooks, make them with badges, pins, bones, or hardwood.

Fibers of bark or twisted tissue will serve as a line.

Take fibers of trees or vines and tie a knot at the ends of the two lengths that you will turn clockwise while interlocking in the opposite direction.

To lengthen the line, add as many fibers as necessary. If it is very heavy fish, use parachutes if possible.

Nails can also be used as hooks. Sometimes it is impossible to catch fish even with the most sophisticated equipment.

So do not be discouraged, try again later in the day or try another method the next day.