HOW TO CATCH FISH

fishing can provide good food in a survival situation survival kit fishing tackle or improvised hooks lines spears or traps and nets can be used to catch fish fish may peak wherever they happen to be however good places to find them are in deep holes and is points where water sources enter and leave lakes or ponds fish like to hide in the shade is the foot of clips and under fallen trees they like to bed around rocks and boulders to practically all flowing bodies of freshwater and saltwater contained fish choose a likely spot to fish now prepare your equipment Gemma willow or other springing Pole make a line from your parachute shroud line you can use a single strand of the shroud line as a light fishing line or the whole inner Court of it as a heavy line stretching the line helps remove wrinkles you'll have to improvise hooks if you don't have an emergency fishing kit this one is made from a Russian can key you can make hooks from safety pins or pins on the parachute ripcord and you can use bone or hardwood a pole with a small branch some safety pins and shroud lines will make a rod safety pins tied to the full service guides the small branch serves as a real note that it must face the tip of the pole at a slight angle now this is no sportsman dream but it gets food successful fishing depends a lot on bait nature provides many varieties one of the most widely found is the earthworm worms can be found in soft earth under fallen timbers and other rocks and clumps of grass insects small frogs crayfish minnows and cut pieces of fish or meat can be used as bait if you can't find live bait improvise even a feather or pieces of colored inner cord from a parachute shroud lines tied to a hook makes an artificial bait the fish don't bite one babe try something else the opener strip from a ration can makes a spinner does punch holes in the ends and attach hook in line fish can be speared in shallow water near ripples or where the water runs shallow over rocks are sand a spear or gas can be easily constructed one good way to make a spear or gas is by using the frame from the pilot chute of your parachute this spear is made of several pieces of a pilot chute frame driven into a pole and sharpened to a point you can sharpen the point with the rock or by beating it using the same pilot chute frame you can make a gap by simply bending the frame into a u-shape the gap is best used on large fish where bamboo is available it makes a good spear you just shake several prongs on one end and hold over a flame to harden there are several fairly simple types of fish traps you can make with limited materials here's one made of three parachute panels take three shoot panels and Stitch the edges together with shroud lines to make a triangular shaped trap tie the small enclosed a weight attached to the closed end helps hold the trapping place the large and is held open by 36 tied to the edges the two bottom corners are weighted down cut some small holes in each side of the trap to allow water to flow through syphon bait in a scrap of Tara shoot and secure it near the small end of the track severing debate allows the fish to smell it but prevent eating it this trap may catch food other than fish such as crabs turtles and snakes it can be used as a dragnet on smooth product areas here's one version of how to make a gill net start by stretching a piece of trout line between two trees this first core determines the length of the net now take several pieces of inner cord double them and type rucak knots along the main chords taya predict not like this cool both strands through the loop at the top take strands over top of main cord and drop them back through the loop and tighten the distance between these prussic knot determines the size of the net mesh now starting from the right take the second and third cord and tie a simple overhand knot to form a V about 2 inches deep take the fourth and fifth chord and tie the same way keep tying cords in this manner to form the mesh sang the two courts next to each other together after the top row the ties form a diamond-shaped mesh sigh another shroud line across the length of meshes the bottom to finish the net one advantage of this overhand gill net is that if necessary more than one crewman can work on it even though injured and unable to forage for food weights are tied in intervals along the bottom of the net to hold it down in the water floats are tied to the top of the net to stretch it and help keep it in position the net should be placed in a stream at an angle of 45 degrees to the bank with the outer end downstream placing it at this angle let's putting objects and debris go by without tearing the net or removing it tie the shore ends to a tree or rock ty the outer end to the opposite bank or in larger streams hold the outer end by putting an anchor out from the end float on the next this that catches fish by the gills and holds them this net can also be used on ocean beaches on the beach it should be placed at a 90-degree angle to the shore to avoid Riptide an old standby and a reliable fish Gator is the trot line all you have to do is tie several hooks each on a short line of about 12 inches on to the trot line is approximately three foot intervals make the hooks with any available base and the trot line is ready to set it can be tied to an opposite bank or anchored one big advantage of the trot line is that it can go unobserved in escape-and-evasion situation don't overlook any opportunity to catch fish you find them in practically all waters and they're high in food values