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Any of you you all snared fish?

Marion David Poff

Marion David Poff

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I have read a couple references to snaring fish with a wire on the end of a long pole.

Have any of you actually done it?

Marion
 
I thought when you used a sort of cordage on the end of a piece of wood it was just called fishing. ;)

What advantage does this method have that a drop line does not?

TF
 
The advantages of these types of rigs are that they use spring tension or a weight to set the hook, a hooked fish can be lifted out of the water and is less likely to get off, especially if you use a modern hook instead of a george hook. They can also act as a "tip-up" so that you can look down a line of them and see if there are any fish without needing to check each one. These can be disadvantages as well though. I once set a toggle stick snair as a demonstration and left it over night. When we went to check it in the morning we found that I had indeed hooked a fish and lifted it out of the water. Unfortunately I didn't select a tall enough sapling and the fish was only about ten inches off the ground. It was eaten by a raccoon, who was nice enough to leave us the last bits of head and tail and tear down my rig from the tree.
 
Talfuchre said:
I thought when you used a sort of cordage on the end of a piece of wood it was just called fishing. ;)

What advantage does this method have that a drop line does not?

TF
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The method I have heard about has the benefit of using just the wire, and a stick you harvest on the spot. The fish does not have to want to eat or bite anything. You just watch, slowly bring the snare loop around the body, and when ready, give a good jerk.

Kinda like fish tickling or hand fishing, but with longer reach, and some mechanical advantage.

Marion
 
A guy I used to know had a dedicated device for the purpose. He called it a Poacher's Tailer" although I have no idea whether that is/was the proper name. It was clearly a professionally made device. Aluminum with an all in one sprung tip section and noose. It was cocked by pulling the noose end to a trigger recess about half way along the shaft. I imagine it would have been very good in skilled hands [although illegal here]. I played snag random objects in the room with it and it worked well.
 
sorry, don't know why those pics aren't showing, must be a website problem.
go to the first link (only one that works) and scroll down to
stick snare for surface feeding fish
 
Md 25v said:
sorry, don't know why those pics aren't showing, must be a website problem.
go to the first link (only one that works) and scroll down to
stick snare for surface feeding fish
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No, not like that, I will take pictures of the book.

But thanks.

M
 
I learned from an old timer to thread a button on a hand held snare and when the button disappears under a resting fish, jerk the snare and catch the fish. You have to lay very still and hang off the edge of a rock , foot bridge, log or whatever to set the snare, but it works. we were catching bass from a stream in West virginia. Good way to teach a kid patience.
 
Yep. I have done it. I used some electrical wire to make a fairly stiff snare that would stay open.... and which could be moved sideways through the water without bending.

My snare loop would have been maybe six inches in diameter, and I had maybe 18 inches of wire extending from the loop.

At night I went to the water's edge with a flashlight. When I spotted a fish I took care not to place too much of my hand in front of the light so that there was less movement that could scare the fish. I carefully manouvered the noose over the fish then quickly yanked it out of the water. I got three fish that night, but one of them got flicked so far into the surrounding shrubbery I never found it.

Warning: it may be illegal to take certain fish this way in some places :foot:
 
Accidentally. I once snared a crappie while jigging. Some how the jig wrapped around it and snagged the line. It snugged up tight .
 
coote said:
Yep. I have done it. I used some electrical wire to make a fairly stiff snare that would stay open.... and which could be moved sideways through the water without bending.

My snare loop would have been maybe six inches in diameter, and I had maybe 18 inches of wire extending from the loop.

At night I went to the water's edge with a flashlight. When I spotted a fish I took care not to place too much of my hand in front of the light so that there was less movement that could scare the fish. I carefully manouvered the noose over the fish then quickly yanked it out of the water. I got three fish that night, but one of them got flicked so far into the surrounding shrubbery I never found it.

Warning: it may be illegal to take certain fish this way in some places :foot:
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Important Lesson.

It works, but, be careful how far you throw the fish.

Nice!


Reminds me of Ghostbusters.....

Dr. Egon Spengler:
There's something very important I forgot to tell you.
Dr. Peter Venkman:
What?
Dr. Egon Spengler:
Don't cross the streams.
Dr. Peter Venkman:
Why?
Dr. Egon Spengler:
It would be bad.
Dr. Peter Venkman:
I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean "bad"?
Dr. Egon Spengler:
Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously, and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Dr. Raymond Stantz:
Total protonic reversal!
Dr. Peter Venkman:
Right, that's bad. Okay, alright, important safety tip, thanks Egon.

M
 
I prefer to use set lines with small barbed treble hooks, covered in bait, attached to a wire leader, atached to heavy braided fishing line secured to a nice stout flexible tree limb. Fish swims near the bank during the evening to feed, finds the bait, swallows it, the trebles gut hook or throat hook em, and the flexible branch keeps them from swimming away.

high;y illegall in most areas. but in a survival situation the Regs can take a flying leap...
 
No. But one of Buckshot's survival videos show how to use snares and conibears to catch fish in a brook. The fish looked like carp or suckers. Very interesting stuff...

Marion David Poff said:
I have read a couple references to snaring fish with a wire on the end of a long pole.

Have any of you actually done it?

Marion
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Bushman5 said:
I prefer to use set lines with small barbed treble hooks, covered in bait, attached to a wire leader, atached to heavy braided fishing line secured to a nice stout flexible tree limb. Fish swims near the bank during the evening to feed, finds the bait, swallows it, the trebles gut hook or throat hook em, and the flexible branch keeps them from swimming away.

high;y illegall in most areas. but in a survival situation the Regs can take a flying leap...
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What do you like for bait?

And what size of fish have you caught this way?

Marion
 
Ive caught some fairly big freshwater eels with set lines. I've never used a treble hook though, just a standard single hook.... probably baited with some tough meat that won't easily come off the hook.

And my family and I have caught a lot of fish using set lines (longlines) in the sea. Very effective. We are allowed to have up to 25 hooks on a line.
 
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