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hey man great video, always like to see people going back to the basics. One tip you might find helpful is if u don't want the skin on a trout, sometimes you cant gut it then snap the head back and peel the skin off along with it. Anyway you might find it useful.
Thanks! I think most channels do just the short and so you get the wrong impression about the technique. Problem is though, that most people don't want to watch an hour long struggle LOL. Thought it was good to give the option anyway.
Tip for brookies very small hook an corn dont worry about setting the hook once baits in the mouth flip the line quickly over your shoulder this should stop em from getting away.
I enjoyed this. Where I grew up in B.C. we could get willows straight as a pin & we usually chose 6-7 ft long. I still caught more fish that way then modern in the thousands. This is not primitive fishing but cane pole fishing. In a survival situation eat the entire fish. The intestines can be cleaned by splitting them as they may contain caddis fly which coat themselves in rocks 😁 mmm. You are wrong this one fish moves you to the next thing. Peeling your rod dries it quick. Lighter, stronger, straighter is faster. You must limit losses. Hope this helps. I do have a bit long video on this except perching. Come on over.
Good ideas there. Yeah, I was just messing around and the guts don't sound too appetizing, but they were probably eaten as well as the head in soup. Still a hard way to make a living!
traffic is a hard way to make a living. I have severe degenerative disk disease in my neck from old breaks so cannot work any longer or play much. I am asking nature for the cure & the mycelium I hope will show me the way. Wish you could have been with my brother & I back a while. Easy peasy we had to hide behind trees fish would jump on our hooks & all we ever used was 50 lb test on a willow pole. The one time I bragged so ...ahh couldn't believe it. Dad gave me a silver hook! Dad said a hook can be any color so long as it is silver. This is the wisdom of Tossdart 😃
Tossdart I heard a red hook doesn't hurt either! Looks like a chironomid :) Good stories, I wish you well. I hope we find cures for all the things that plague us. It's certainly no fun to regress, but nature is nature - we do what we still can. From the looks of your channel, you're no slacker.
Should have added some beard hairs to the worm. Hairy worms catch all the fish. :D Interesting to see that in decent conditions (I'm assuming those were decent conditions), right on top of the food, its still a struggle to get it, and even if you do get it, after the time investment (burning up calories), the processing and cooking (burning up calories), chances of it providing a calorie surplus is a further challenge still. Really interesting stuff. Thanks for the video (long and short).
I've recently found an interest in trout fishing but sadly I only have stocked still water around me, have any tips for catching trout in the still water?
Well, a can of salmon dry is about 200 calories or so. This is likely quite similar I would say. So for 4 hours of work start to finish....I'm running a deficit. In other words, I would be better off not to fish in a "survival situation." Gill net, yes, if you have one. Maybe an overnight set line. But this way is too expensive to produce enough to justify it.
Yes, all my new stuff is with the Sony. It's filmed in HD not 4k though. I decided that I couldn't tell the difference and it wasn't worth using all that extra data just yet and my computer really has a hard to processing it, so for now, I'll hold off on the 4k.
KmboooL I'm satisfied so far. I find the stabilizer is good and bad because if you have a steady hand anyway, it will kind of fight you a bit, but it does help. Auto-focus does a decent job, but sometimes we disagree with what it should focus on, so I fight it with manual focus which is tough. But it's okay overall. If you wear sunglasses it doesn't see your face as a face so autofocus sometimes fails. Moving back and zooming into interesting things, small things, is fantastic! You can see very, very fine details that you couldn't see with your naked eye. What do you think of the picture quality? I think it's pretty darn good even on HD. I've been pretty hard on it thus far and it works good. I get about 4 hrs off a battery and 6 hrs on the extended life batteries (worth about $250 though). I run a rode vid mic pro. I don't know how well the onboard mic is, never used it. Hope that helps.
A sapling, not a branch, is best for fishing, but while it may be primitive in the sense that it's been done for a long time, it's also still used widely today, and I'm a bit surprised anyone who thin at all about survival wouldn't fish this way often. Done right, a pole should be a heck of a lot easier. Willow works best, but hickory also works very well. The most important thing is the line and hooks you take with you, and how much fishing experience you have. Wise woodsmen learn how to fish with a cane pole. A real cane pole. They also learn how to fish with a telescoping metal "cane" pole. If you shop around, you can find a twenty foot pole for twenty dollars. Then the switch to willow, or to hickory, or to the best quality they can find. You shouldn't need to let line out, or to reel line in. You should never need more than ten feet of line, and usually not that much. The pole you cut should be long enough to hoist at LEAS a five pound fish out of the water and flip it onto the bank without breaking. Line and hook should also be capable of this. True tenkara is also be a fundamental skill. It's almost identical to fishing with a very long telescoping rod, except it's about twenty times as expensive. There is no reason for tis that I can see. Learn tenkara techniques, but just use a metal telescoping "cane" pole to fish with. But with the water being that shallow, there are far easier ways of catching any fish therein. While I do firmly believe that such skills should be learned by everyone even thinking about survival, I find it difficult to imagine a scenario that puts me in that position. I carry real fishing gear on my belt whenever I go near the wild. I carry some pretty high quality fishing gear in my pocket, even when I have no intention of going near the wild. I don't believe in being unprepared, and mini survival kits are a joke. Mini fishing kits are even worse. Mini survival kits go start with the SAS, so people assume they must be useful. They really aren't. The military handed these out for morale, not because the experts believed they would aid much in real survival. Psychologists came up with this idea, not real woodsmen. I'd rather have a mini kit than have nothing, but not by much. The less you know about real survival, the more dangerous such kits are. They give a horrendously dangerous overconfidence that the untrained person can open an Altoid tin and survive.
I agree with your last few sentiments, those kits are junk and in most cases replacing calories is really hard like this. The problem i had was getting the bait in the strike zone without being able to cast or let line out to do a natural drift. There's a lot of choke/branches deadfall and overhangning branches. With a rod, it's easy, swing underhand, cast, let line out drive, reel up repeat. Pretty hard with a fixed line. I found it really frustrating and underproductive. I wouldn't consider this technique effective at replacing calories. I'm airing a 5 day challenge living off the land right now and....even if you could catch enough or more than enough fish to eat...it probably wouldn't be enough to make a go long term anyway.
I tried both....this was the only one I managed to catch a fish with. The pole is a little harder to maneuver, you can't let line out (it's fixed). Pros...you can drop the bait in where you need it. Skip over to the long version if you want to see the cane pole version.
Ok, just saw the full version. One trick you could do is just above the part of the pole where you'll use as the handle, is put two notches facing away from each other about 6 inches away. If the bark is thick, you can just split the bark, but sometimes splitting a bit of the wood makes it clasp the line better. Once you tie the line to the end of the pole, make a fixed loop, then feed the line back to the notches, and you can wind the rest of the line there, that way the line isn't on the ground getting tangled and what not. Plus, when you cast, you can adjust the length of your casting line, and when then line is out, you can also tighten it back up, if needed.
Another reason for this is because the tip of the pole will usually be thinner. If the tip breaks off, you also still have the thicker part of the pole, which the line is still attached (until all the line is dragged away). You could also, before winding the line on those notches, is to tie the line again to below those notches, that way if the pole breaks, you still have line tied to the bottom part of the pole.
Ebon Kim Yup, I know that technique, but I had a lot of line and didn't really care that much if I lost it. I was just trying to see how much harder it was to fish like this versus fishing with a rod...turns out, it's a lot harder!
Yeah, it is, especially for trout! Although, brook trout are particularly aggressive, so it's probably do-able with practice. When I go out fishing, I switch from fishing with my modern reel or fly rod, and then fashion my own rod from a stick, used line I find from the shore, and a makeshift hook from whittled wood. The only things I end up catching that way are bluegill. They'll bite anything!
I hope we can collaborate and make a vid together sometime like I said I live in Sudbury and wanted to know if you were close where are you guys located
Haha ur good man! I just noticed at some point in the video you had u a whole night crawler on... But ur good dude. Very admirable your videos are man. Im a huge steelhead fisherman and do very well in western New york. I also grew up fishing for brookies like yourself with just tiny iddy bity pieces of worm with tiny little hooks for brook trout. Works well! As you know brookies have small mouths but are very aggressive so even the tiniest piece of worm works well! But like I said your videos are awesome man! Keep up the good work! No disrespect meant by my comment! I will sub bro! Peeeeeaaaaceeee...
ryan coleman I just asked because I rarely do use a whole worm...however, sometimes I will bulk up a half worm that is down to a nub with another half worm, thread it up, so it does tend to look like a whole worm again! No worries man, I like to clarify a position! Thanks for the sub, appreciate that. Tight lines!
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Man. This channel really helps with stress. Thanks man.
yes!!!!
hey man great video, always like to see people going back to the basics. One tip you might find helpful is if u don't want the skin on a trout, sometimes you cant gut it then snap the head back and peel the skin off along with it. Anyway you might find it useful.
Cool! Though I love the skin the best!
Big Nice Handline Fishing For Trout Survival, I like this fishing like that when i am holiday for work
Love handling fishing, I typically use a bottle or can. As that’s what I used when I was a kid and teen. Great content. Shout out from Canada!
That was a lot of fun to watch. Thanks for sharing
Much harder than it looks!
I caught a few hickory shad on the Roanoke River a few days ago with my handline. I love fishng this way. - ATB, Curry
Great video! love the short long video dynamic!
Thanks! I think most channels do just the short and so you get the wrong impression about the technique. Problem is though, that most people don't want to watch an hour long struggle LOL. Thought it was good to give the option anyway.
I preferred the long version but still gave a thumbs up for this one too
Full stop, going to try hand line fishing soon.
Tip for brookies very small hook an corn dont worry about setting the hook once baits in the mouth flip the line quickly over your shoulder this should stop em from getting away.
I enjoyed this video WB! Looks a like its a little tougher with a stubby log for a rod hahha!! Way to mix it up something I need to try sometime!!
Good luck man. I won't be trading in the long rod for a stubby log anytime soon haha!
I will need some luck with this! That stub had all kinds of back bone tho!! Lmao!!!
Aaron Nelson
bahaha, heavy action but no sensitivity. Should have gone with the "Beaver UltraLight" LMAO.
The Wooded Beardsman
Hhahha!! That is funny stuff right there!! Bhahha!!!
Just got to say man the dam mosquito 😂😂😂but I love your videos
I enjoyed this. Where I grew up in B.C. we could get willows straight as a pin & we usually chose 6-7 ft long. I still caught more fish that way then modern in the thousands. This is not primitive fishing but cane pole fishing. In a survival situation eat the entire fish. The intestines can be cleaned by splitting them as they may contain caddis fly which coat themselves in rocks 😁 mmm. You are wrong this one fish moves you to the next thing. Peeling your rod dries it quick. Lighter, stronger, straighter is faster. You must limit losses. Hope this helps. I do have a bit long video on this except perching. Come on over.
Good ideas there. Yeah, I was just messing around and the guts don't sound too appetizing, but they were probably eaten as well as the head in soup. Still a hard way to make a living!
traffic is a hard way to make a living. I have severe degenerative disk disease in my neck from old breaks so cannot work any longer or play much. I am asking nature for the cure & the mycelium I hope will show me the way. Wish you could have been with my brother & I back a while. Easy peasy we had to hide behind trees fish would jump on our hooks & all we ever used was 50 lb test on a willow pole. The one time I bragged so ...ahh couldn't believe it. Dad gave me a silver hook! Dad said a hook can be any color so long as it is silver. This is the wisdom of Tossdart 😃
Tossdart
I heard a red hook doesn't hurt either! Looks like a chironomid :) Good stories, I wish you well. I hope we find cures for all the things that plague us. It's certainly no fun to regress, but nature is nature - we do what we still can. From the looks of your channel, you're no slacker.
Nice video dude love them brookies
Thanks brother!
Wanting to get into handline fishing... Seen a video buy wooded beardsman.. yessss
Nice, cool Video.
Thanks again!
I suppose an appetizer is better that nothing at all! Keep'em Rolling!!
Indeed!
Great video! is this the Sony AX53 with a Rode videomic go?
Yup, video mic Pro...the one with the mount. Filmed in HD, not 4k. Cheers.
The Wooded Beardsman Ah, yes. Thanks for the reply!
Should have added some beard hairs to the worm. Hairy worms catch all the fish. :D
Interesting to see that in decent conditions (I'm assuming those were decent conditions), right on top of the food, its still a struggle to get it, and even if you do get it, after the time investment (burning up calories), the processing and cooking (burning up calories), chances of it providing a calorie surplus is a further challenge still. Really interesting stuff.
Thanks for the video (long and short).
Yup, exactly. This one is busted LOL.
I've recently found an interest in trout fishing but sadly I only have stocked still water around me, have any tips for catching trout in the still water?
Thread up a worm as I do....and drop it down to the bottom and give it a few twitches. Cast it around and try the deep spots in the summer months.
nice video
nice video...
Nice. How many calories would you estimate that provided?
Well, a can of salmon dry is about 200 calories or so. This is likely quite similar I would say. So for 4 hours of work start to finish....I'm running a deficit. In other words, I would be better off not to fish in a "survival situation." Gill net, yes, if you have one. Maybe an overnight set line. But this way is too expensive to produce enough to justify it.
oh please... i want some 😁
I'll save you a piece :)
keep it up!!!!
Thanks James!
did you use Sony ax53 in this video?
Yes, all my new stuff is with the Sony. It's filmed in HD not 4k though. I decided that I couldn't tell the difference and it wasn't worth using all that extra data just yet and my computer really has a hard to processing it, so for now, I'll hold off on the 4k.
what is your opinion about the camera? any cons you noticed?
KmboooL
I'm satisfied so far. I find the stabilizer is good and bad because if you have a steady hand anyway, it will kind of fight you a bit, but it does help. Auto-focus does a decent job, but sometimes we disagree with what it should focus on, so I fight it with manual focus which is tough. But it's okay overall. If you wear sunglasses it doesn't see your face as a face so autofocus sometimes fails. Moving back and zooming into interesting things, small things, is fantastic! You can see very, very fine details that you couldn't see with your naked eye. What do you think of the picture quality? I think it's pretty darn good even on HD. I've been pretty hard on it thus far and it works good. I get about 4 hrs off a battery and 6 hrs on the extended life batteries (worth about $250 though). I run a rode vid mic pro. I don't know how well the onboard mic is, never used it. Hope that helps.
its helped a lot, thanks for your time!
+KmboooL No problem.
Good job nice fid
TBHE_ Lonzy Thanks again!
@3:52 behind you in the woods is a Bigfoot!
cool!
Where do you fish?
Usually up around North Bay, Ontario.
A sapling, not a branch, is best for fishing, but while it may be primitive in the sense that it's been done for a long time, it's also still used widely today, and I'm a bit surprised anyone who thin at all about survival wouldn't fish this way often.
Done right, a pole should be a heck of a lot easier. Willow works best, but hickory also works very well. The most important thing is the line and hooks you take with you, and how much fishing experience you have.
Wise woodsmen learn how to fish with a cane pole. A real cane pole. They also learn how to fish with a telescoping metal "cane" pole. If you shop around, you can find a twenty foot pole for twenty dollars. Then the switch to willow, or to hickory, or to the best quality they can find.
You shouldn't need to let line out, or to reel line in. You should never need more than ten feet of line, and usually not that much. The pole you cut should be long enough to hoist at LEAS a five pound fish out of the water and flip it onto the bank without breaking. Line and hook should also be capable of this.
True tenkara is also be a fundamental skill. It's almost identical to fishing with a very long telescoping rod, except it's about twenty times as expensive. There is no reason for tis that I can see. Learn tenkara techniques, but just use a metal telescoping "cane" pole to fish with.
But with the water being that shallow, there are far easier ways of catching any fish therein.
While I do firmly believe that such skills should be learned by everyone even thinking about survival, I find it difficult to imagine a scenario that puts me in that position. I carry real fishing gear on my belt whenever I go near the wild. I carry some pretty high quality fishing gear in my pocket, even when I have no intention of going near the wild. I don't believe in being unprepared, and mini survival kits are a joke. Mini fishing kits are even worse. Mini survival kits go start with the SAS, so people assume they must be useful. They really aren't. The military handed these out for morale, not because the experts believed they would aid much in real survival. Psychologists came up with this idea, not real woodsmen. I'd rather have a mini kit than have nothing, but not by much. The less you know about real survival, the more dangerous such kits are. They give a horrendously dangerous overconfidence that the untrained person can open an Altoid tin and survive.
I agree with your last few sentiments, those kits are junk and in most cases replacing calories is really hard like this. The problem i had was getting the bait in the strike zone without being able to cast or let line out to do a natural drift. There's a lot of choke/branches deadfall and overhangning branches. With a rod, it's easy, swing underhand, cast, let line out drive, reel up repeat. Pretty hard with a fixed line. I found it really frustrating and underproductive. I wouldn't consider this technique effective at replacing calories. I'm airing a 5 day challenge living off the land right now and....even if you could catch enough or more than enough fish to eat...it probably wouldn't be enough to make a go long term anyway.
did you keep the fish
Always.
Why not break off a stick to fashion a cane pole, instead of using the log?
I tried both....this was the only one I managed to catch a fish with. The pole is a little harder to maneuver, you can't let line out (it's fixed). Pros...you can drop the bait in where you need it. Skip over to the long version if you want to see the cane pole version.
Ok, just saw the full version. One trick you could do is just above the part of the pole where you'll use as the handle, is put two notches facing away from each other about 6 inches away. If the bark is thick, you can just split the bark, but sometimes splitting a bit of the wood makes it clasp the line better. Once you tie the line to the end of the pole, make a fixed loop, then feed the line back to the notches, and you can wind the rest of the line there, that way the line isn't on the ground getting tangled and what not. Plus, when you cast, you can adjust the length of your casting line, and when then line is out, you can also tighten it back up, if needed.
Another reason for this is because the tip of the pole will usually be thinner. If the tip breaks off, you also still have the thicker part of the pole, which the line is still attached (until all the line is dragged away). You could also, before winding the line on those notches, is to tie the line again to below those notches, that way if the pole breaks, you still have line tied to the bottom part of the pole.
Ebon Kim
Yup, I know that technique, but I had a lot of line and didn't really care that much if I lost it. I was just trying to see how much harder it was to fish like this versus fishing with a rod...turns out, it's a lot harder!
Yeah, it is, especially for trout! Although, brook trout are particularly aggressive, so it's probably do-able with practice. When I go out fishing, I switch from fishing with my modern reel or fly rod, and then fashion my own rod from a stick, used line I find from the shore, and a makeshift hook from whittled wood. The only things I end up catching that way are bluegill. They'll bite anything!
I hope we can collaborate and make a vid together sometime like I said I live in Sudbury and wanted to know if you were close where are you guys located
Hey, you never know! I don't end up in Sudbury too often but it's been known to happen.
do more about trout fishing and ill subscribe
There are always more trout adventures! I just did an ice fishing trip, up in a while though, since I have a lot of other stuff coming.
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At 8:08 I can see some poison ivy.
I really Enjoyed your Video. Would you mind checking some of my stuff out and tell me on what I can improve on?
Also how do you market your videos?
shouldnt use a whole worm just a tail
Did I use the whole worm?
Haha ur good man! I just noticed at some point in the video you had u a whole night crawler on... But ur good dude. Very admirable your videos are man. Im a huge steelhead fisherman and do very well in western New york. I also grew up fishing for brookies like yourself with just tiny iddy bity pieces of worm with tiny little hooks for brook trout. Works well! As you know brookies have small mouths but are very aggressive so even the tiniest piece of worm works well! But like I said your videos are awesome man! Keep up the good work! No disrespect meant by my comment! I will sub bro! Peeeeeaaaaceeee...
ryan coleman
I just asked because I rarely do use a whole worm...however, sometimes I will bulk up a half worm that is down to a nub with another half worm, thread it up, so it does tend to look like a whole worm again! No worries man, I like to clarify a position! Thanks for the sub, appreciate that. Tight lines!
lol
This freaking fly is so annoying 😡
Man dude I'm sorry I truly am but I'm doubtful if you know what you're doing bro what a waste of my time sorry bro