Traditional Wild Fishing Methods

Used in

• Chapter 10 The Water

In the Workshop

The willow eel trap

The rows that check it

• 3 confirmed
• 3 partly confirmed
• 1 unresolved
• 1 dropped
• 0 marked for safety

• E41 confirmed Boylston Street fishweir: found 1913, ~5,200 BP, ~65,000 stakes, tidal, rebuilt higher, abandoned ~3,700 BP
• E43 confirmed Dutch Neolithic traps of red dogwood ~7,000 years old, chosen for bending; Syltholm Ertebølle wattle panels prefabricated
• E44 partly confirmed Spreewald Sorbian kit: Einbaum, Fischzaun, Zugnetz, Bünn
• E45 unresolved Trap rules: odd ribs, sharp unwoven funnel tines, door plug, willow cut in winter and soaked; Californian basket 7 ft, 20 in mouth to 4 in funnel
• E47 dropped V-weir figures (30–45°, gap 30–50 cm, stakes 5–8 cm at 8–10 cm, wall 15–20 cm above water, 4 m stream, banks inward, permeable) from a survival website
• E48 partly confirmed Trotline droppers 35–40 cm at ≥ 60 cm, swivels; bait by species; set dusk lift dawn; hooked fish spoil and pike tear off
• E49 confirmed Gorge hook from bone or thorn, turns 90° in the gullet, last resort; hook forged from a nail
• E50 partly confirmed Nettle cord: late-summer stems, bast, retting, two-ply reverse wrap; strength values lost in extraction

In the Index

Tools and their making Wild food and game Fish