How do you catch a fish without a fishing pole?
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Many other names, such as catfisting, grabbling, graveling, hogging, dogging, gurgling, tickling and stumping, are used in different regions for the same activity. Noodling is currently legal in eleven of the United States.
To begin, a noodler goes underwater to depths ranging from only a few feet to up to twenty feet and places his hand inside a discovered catfish hole. If all goes as planned, the catfish will swim forward and latch onto the fisherman's hand, usually as a defensive maneuver, in order to try to escape the hole. If the fish is particularly large, the noodler can hook the hand around its gills.
Noodling was also featured in a pilot episode of the Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs.In this episode, host Mike Rowe joins two men from Oklahoma as they noodle for flatheads. The segment ends after Rowe noodles a fish and the men clean and enjoy the catch
(this is really not a sport I'd ever want to do.....)
wikipedia, ehow.com, youtube.com
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M$Best Way: Netting of different types.
i. Electrocution: This is practiced in a small enclosure of water or a small stream. Practiced in poor places where people cannot afford costly fishing equipments. They just use a battery or a live wire.
ii. Drugging/Poisoning: Poisons that are fatal for the fish but not that harmful for human are mixed in water. This may result in mass killing of fishes. Practiced in poor areas where people cannot afford fishing instruments and costly nets.
iii. Noodling: Explained above.
iv. Dredging and Trawling: Explained above.
v. Trapping: Apart from methods explained above, baskets and traps made of bamboo/wood are also used.
vi. Using animals: In some parts of the world, people also use trained pet animals like otters, fishing kites etc. to catch fish. But in such cases, the catch is many a times mutilated or damaged. Usually, the fisherman feeds a portion of the catch to the pet. You will be surprised to know that once upon a time in the Indian Subcontinent, fishing with the help of otters was banned.
vii. De-watering: This method is particularly used in very small pools or ponds or water holes created during high tides and rains. The water is removed from the pools/ponds to uncover the fish and finally it is caught.
viii. Spearing and Archery: Fish are also hunted with the help of spears and bows & arrows. Hope I need not explain this.
Hope that answers your question. Thanks
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Thanks Imadrid! I did not actually forgot to mention that they were harmful to environment and illegal, but I just concentrated on the methods and thought it may not be relevant to mention those things.
But I really forgot to mention using Dynamite.
Anyway, thanks a lot for your comments.
You fail to mention that fishing by means of "Electrocution" and "Poisoning" is not only harmful to the environment but also illegal.
Fishing via electrocution will indiscriminately kill all fish of any sizes. It severely depletes all fish stocks and eliminate all fishes in the area.
Poisoning with the use Cyanide are used by divers on coral reefs to drive out fishes from their hiding spots. This will kill the fish and the coral. In the end there will be no more fish to catch.
BTW you forgot to mention another highly illegal fishing method: "Dynamite"
Just throw one near a coral reef and it only takes one big bang.
Another traditional way to catch fish without a pole is to use trained cormorants. This is called ukai fishing and is practiced in Japan and China. The bird has a ring placed around its neck to prevent it from swallowing the fish.
http://www.pbase.com/selsadek10/cormorant_fishing
Another effective but disastrous method of fishing without use of a pole is fishing with dynamite, called blast fishing. Although outlawed, the practice remains widespread.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blast_fishing
All in all, there are countless ways to catch fish without a pole. Many are difficult, many others are easy but illegal. Do everyone a favor and use a regular fishing pole after all, and make sure you get a proper license and obey the relevant laws.
And always remember:
"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day."
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These are:
1. Purse seinin - this is with the use of a large net to encircle schools of fish. You are going to pull the bottom of the net like like a drawstring purse to encourage the fishes to go into the center of the net. This is usually done to catch sardines and squids.
2. Gillnetting - a net is used and placed like a curtain on the water suspended in water by the using floats and weights. These are then anchored into the bed of water and since these are transparent the fish will not be able to see this and they will swim right into it.
3. Longlining - used central fishing line that can reach up to 50 miles in length. There are hooks that are placed in this lines with baits dangling.
4.Trawls and dredges - also uses nets which are towed at various depths to catch fish or shellfish.
5. Traps and pots - these are traps which are submerged at the bottom of the sea, inside the bait cage are food to attract fish and the fisherman will return to haul the catch.
6. Harpooning - a traditional method, where the fisherman use a long aluminum or wooden harpoon into the animal and hauls it aboard.
7. Trolling - a hook and line method is used in this type of fishing. This is done alongside the boat where the fisherman uses varied lures and bait attach to a hook and string.
See images #1 to #6 respectively
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Trapping Fish:
http://www.m4040.com/Survival/Skills/Hunting%20and%20Snaring/Fishing.htm
Making a Fishing Spear:
http://www.m4040.com/Survival/Skills/Hunting%20and%20Snaring/Weapons/Spears.htm
I hike a lot and have made and tried this barbed spear and it actually worked! Only tried for about and hour! lol.
Careful using any of these tecniques, check your local laws to make sure you won't be breaking them.
M4040's website is an excellent source for survival advice.
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M$The cast net of Polynesia and Biloxi will catch shrimp(properly sized mesh necessary) or mullet(nonbiting on bait); My try with a cast net produced a flounder and a crab.
Bait can be caught with this: stir up the mud until the surface water is all that is clear and sometimes small fry will come to the surface to find clear water to avoid silt-thereupon they may be grabbed for the best bait ever found.
When a dam blocks fish from passing upstream they will often congregate at the base. My cousin 'dipped' some bream(pronounced brim), one night in Mississippi, by plunging a catch net into the pool below a dam.
Seines are nets dragged through a water body in hope of straining out fish for food or bait but it is illegal in most places.
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1.Get some fishing line, tie a hook (and sinker, if needed) on it.
2.Bait the hook.
3.Stand near the edge of the water, or on a dock or boat, and let the line dangle into the water.
4.Tug on the line to set the hook when you get a bite, then pull the fish in.
Trap Method 1
1.Cut the top off a 2-liter soft drink bottle, or other bottle with a funnel shaped top.
2.Reinsert the top with the bottle spout inside the cylinder of the bottom of the bottle, and attach it with hot melt glue.
3.Place some bait and small stones (to sink it) in the bottle.
4.Tie a line on the bottle, long enough to reach the bottom of the water you are fishing in.
5.Drop the bottle in the water, trying to "guide" it down so it lays flat on the bottom.
6.Pull the "fish trap" bottle in after an hour or two, and see if any fish have swam through the opening and become trapped inside. You may want to use the same principal to create a larger trap using wood slats or wire mesh, to catch larger fish.
Trap Method 2
1.Buy a minnow trap at a local outdoors or outfitters store. They come in different shapes and styles, so ask an employee for the best kind in your situation.
2.Get the bait. Baiting this kind of trap is very simple. You can use anything from a handful of potato chips to expired food from your fridge. You just need something that will give off a scent and attract the fish to the trap.
Spear the fish
1.Buy or build a spear (or an archery bow with fishing arrows).
2.Tie a line to the spear so you can retrieve it after you have thrown it.
3.Find a place on the shore to hide your silhouette from passing fish.
4.Throw your spear at the fish as they swim by. This requires some practice, since light bends in the water, making it necessary to adjust your aim to compensate.
Alternate Method
1.Use a can or a thick stick as a line drum (spool) to hold your line.
2.Wind your line onto the drum. Wind it carefully, so you have no tangles.
3.Tie a weight onto the end of your line and a hook about a foot up the line from the weight.
4.Grasp the line about 2 feet from the end and twirl it about your head (like an ancient sling), releasing it toward your target.
5.Point the end of the drum, as you bring up the line, towards the target so that the line can easily peel off the end of the drum.
6.Hold the line, and when a fish bites, pull the line in, winding it back around your "spool" to keep it from tangling.
Baiting
1.Buy or catch worms, crickets, flies, or other insects.
2.Fish like some types of veggies (corn, celery, carrots, lettuce, peas)
3.Make do with a leaf, or some plant you find, cat tails work well.
4.Shrimp attract large fish
5.Small fish that you either don't need or die can be used for bait as well.
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