Survival Fishing – Part 5

If you aren’t nature savvy and don’t know how to do any of this, but need a meal or two you can always try chop fishing. Take a blunt object (if you have a machete use the back side of the blade) and hit the fish. At night you can use a light to attract the fish (flashlight, watch, mobile phone).

Survival Fishing is a skill that would prove very useful if you are in a desperate situation. If you’re in nature you should be prepared to use this skill. Make sure you have the proper tools to fish so that it’s easier for you and takes up less energy, something you need to conserve in survival.

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Survival Fishing – Part 4

Another very effective way of survival fishing is using fish poison. It allows you to be unseen by the fish while it’s working. You can also kill multiple fish at once. Be sure to gather all the affected fish, because you don’t want to send dead fish downstream.

There are plants you can find in warmer weather climates that will stun or kill fish, but won’t harm the person eating it. Some plants you can use are: Lime, Nut husks, Tephrosia, and Duboisia Rotenone is a fish poison that works best in water that’s 70۫ F or above. It works slowly in 50۫ F to 70۫ F water, and doesn’t work at all below 50۫ F water.

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Survival Fishing – Part 3

If the water you’re near isn’t more than waist deep you can spear fish. To make the spear, you can use a sapling that’s been carved to a sharp point, or you can attach sharp metal, or sharp bone or a knife.

To spear fish you need to get the spear into the water and slowly get close to the fish. Then you should thrust the spear into the fish. Make sure not to throw the spear because you can’t afford to lose it. Don’t pick up the fish with the spear, it may come off, hold the spear in one hand and grab the fish with another.

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Survival Fishing – Part 2

Another long term survival fishing technique there are a few ways to catch fish. If you set up a trap you can wait for the fish to come to you. There are a couple kinds of traps that I’ll try to explain to you. Fish baskets are one way to go. You use supplies found in nature, long sticks and vines. You make a long circular trap with the top closed and a whole in the bottom for the fish to swim through. Use shorter sticks at the bottom to make a sort of funnel so the fish can’t get out once it’s in.

For long term try a pool or shore trap. Build it when there’s a high tide at the low tide line. Fish tend to get near the shore when the tide comes in and move along shore. Where you may have logs available build a box with the side facing the water open. Use more logs to make a channel into the box.

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Survival Fishing – Part 1

If you need to survive in the wilderness there are many skills that will prove useful, including survival fishing. You’re going to need to eat to keep up strength, if you’re near water with fish that will be a good supply of energy and nutrition. There are many types of survival fishing. This week we’ll go over the types of survival fishing some for short term situations, some for long term situations.

You may not have planned to be out in the wilderness so this week we’ll cover a couple of ways of survival fishing that can be done with little or no preparation. If you’re planning an outing in nature make sure you’re prepared for the worst situation. Have some small and light tools that are easy to pack and carry.

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