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Early ways of the main fishing methods started appearing in the Neolithic times between 8,000 and 4,000 years ago. For instance, one of the earliest fishing hooks was gorge hook used by Native Americans of the California coast between 7500 to 3000 years ago.
We catch fish for food since 40,000 years ago. Since then we invented many different methods of fishing which depend on how much fish we want to catch, which fish we want to catch, where we are catching it and what for. Here you can read more about fishing history and techniques.
Spearfishing is method of fishing with a spear and is one of the oldest ways that humanity used to catch fish. Early civilizations used sharpened sticks for spearfishing and these were one of the first spears.
Fishing Tackle - The Basic Fishing Equipment. At first, fishing rods were simple: a piece of wood, a rope, and a hook. Time went on, fishing devices were improved and today we have thousands and thousands different rods, lines and fishhooks for different fish and different methods of fishing.
People started to fish for pleasure and sport around 15th century in different parts of the world. The first text in Europe to mentions angling was “The Treatyse on Fysshynge with an Angle” written by Dame Juliana Berners and published in 1496.
Fish is part of human diet for millennia. We catch fish for food and sport and we came to know many types of fish and we changed our catching techniques accordingly. Here are some facts about fishing with interesting fisherman superstitions.
Ancient Egyptians knew about fishing nets and we know about that from tomb paintings dating from 3000 BC. Greek author Oppian wrote the Halieutica which talks about different kinds of fishing and describes different nets.
History of fishing rods go back to ancient Egypt and China. By stone inscriptions (dating back to 2000 BC) fishing rods were used in ancient Egypt, China, Greece, Trinidad and Tobago, Rome and medieval England. But fishing rod was invented even earlier.
Almost every civilization that fished invented a fish trap of its own. Fishing has two general forms: fixed and portable. Fixed are made in the form of a fishing weir. They are obstacles placed in the water that direct the passage of fish into a part where they will be trapped and from where they can’t escape.
History of Ice Fishing - Techniques and Equipment. Ice fishing is an old method of fishing where fishermen catch fish with line and hook through an opening in the ice on a frozen body of water. It began as a way of survival in those periods of year and parts of the Earth where ice would cover the water and getting the fish was not as easy as ...