Survival Fishing

I’ve done a little fishing over the years, but especially in my younger days, and when I get back to Ontario (very soon) I intend to do more. Of course, in my youth (Late Stone Age) there were no GPS devices, no $5,000 sonar “fish finders,” and no giant motor boats, so maybe I get to skip a few “survival” classes. Blandford’s Netmaking (available online) is an amazing 90-page document. There must be lots of other information hidden out there. Multiple hooks, or nets and traps of various sorts, are the only way to get some of the 4,000 to 5,000 daily calories needed in wilderness living. Certainly “sport” fishing — one hook, one line, one rod, one reel — bears little resemblance to “survival” fishing. Some of the latter is not even illegal, but laws vary from one place to another.

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