My SAK Ranger & Hobo Fishing Kit

[martineden]

“Hobo” means – essentially – a migratory worker . Hobo is a vagabond, which means, in latin “a person who move around fulltime”


The origin of the term “hobo” is unknown, anyway we know that hobos were (and are) not tramps, or bums: hobos are persons full of energy, curious, looking around for new jobs and experiences


As a final note, in the USA the “hobos” developed a sort of new language (1930/40 - Great Depression)


Jack London was also someway a hobo

So Jack Kerouack

I consider myself also a “hobo”, with proud

A properly “hobo” didn’t need for sophisticate items to catch food (or do a shelter ecc.): he use what is available at the time.

This explain the “hobo fishing kit”: it’s – in summary” a self made fishing kit, using soda cans, woods, bamboo, bottles, and other materials as fishing rod. The rest is usually (not always) more normal, a simple fishing line.






Here R. Mears fishing whit a hobo fishing kit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvRR5MTBBQI


And here we are with my “hobo fishing kit”, I made it entirely with my SAK Ranger



I used a piece of old bamboo (I took it on Greece, 2 years ago), 30 cm long, internal diameter 2 cm, closed with a cork. The fishing rope (20 metres) is assured to the bamboo with pieces of bike’s air chamber


I also added a lanyard to the my fishing rod.

On the internal side, a float fishing + 1 meter of fishing rope with leads and hook





It’s very light, some 100 grams.

Now I need just to jump on a train



Ciao,
Alfredo

 

[Knife Crazied]

Very neat.

 

[Grateful]

That is really cool. Great post!
Jim

 

[Mud Shrimp Moe]

Man, I love that!

 

[Humppa]

Nice fishing kit and a nice knife

Kind regards

 

[Harayasu]

Very nice!

 

[znapschatz]

"The origin of the term “hobo” is unknown, anyway we know that hobos were (and are) not tramps, or bums: hobos are persons full of energy, curious, looking around for new jobs and experiences."

Actually, the origin is known, and is an interesting bit of Americana. It comes from the post civil war era, in which former Confederate soldiers were faced with the problem of making a living in the ruined economy of the South. Many of them wound up going from farm to farm looking for field work, carrying with them their own hoes. They became known as "hoe boys," from there a short linguistic hop to "hobos," the name eventually referring to all who wander in search of work.

 

[martineden]

Many thanks for adding this info. Thank you!