speedhook out of a paperclip (medium size)

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carspidey

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have any of you tried to put together a fishing kit that could be used as speedhook?

i was looking at some speedhooks pics and they seem very simple to make...

I was bored at work and made a the spring part out of a paperclip and the spring seems to work ok...

I'll try to finish it and then i'll post pics...

what other tricks (pics please) do you have to catch fish other than regular fishing??? (i am talking about a survival situation here :D) (pics please :D)
 
.75 inch fishnet, collapses into almost nothing and weighs the same. Fish traps, if well made, can be VERY effective, I've had massive fish traps with 10-12 bluegills going all at once. Make a cage of inward spiked wooden bolts anchored to a shallow lakebed, and bait with the guts and organs of other fish and small game you catch. fish swims in, can't swim out. You don't have to kill them right away, if you're really paranoid about losing them you can make a seperate fishtank by digging a hole on shore and lining it with rocks and thick mud. I use soda can openers for fishooks, they do great for sunfish, crappie, perch, bluegill and the like. A pretty effective way in creeks, streams and small rivers is to find an overhanging branch and run 550 chord guts down to the water with soda can popper hooks and worms. I can guarantee you a paperclip isn't strong enough to hook anything but a minnow. A combination of 550 chord, pitch and hardwood can make a decently effective hook as well, as does animal bone.
 
theamazingdrew said:
I'ts cord not chord (lol grammar nazi I know).:D
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fishshooter said:
It's "it's", not "i'ts." :D
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HaHa, pwned! :thumbup:



More on topic, I love the fishnet idea! I think would be a more effective way of catching fish, it wouldn't rely as much on tricking individual fish at a time. And, if it's compact...
Where can you get fish netting? Seems most of the stuff I find in a google search is for decoration, or will that stuff work just the same?
 
Here's one of those yo-yo's. You pull out a bit of line and set the trigger. A fish gets on the line, moves the trigger and the spring tries to spool the line back up. I've only used it for catfish. To be honest, a good springy branch with a bush hook works just as well. I'll hang some around behind the house sometime with some bream bait on them. They would work for a snare trigger for small game, no bigger than a rabbit I would think.

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Trigger set:

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Trigger tripped:

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stingray4540 said:
HaHa, pwned! :thumbup:



More on topic, I love the fishnet idea! I think would be a more effective way of catching fish, it wouldn't rely as much on tricking individual fish at a time. And, if it's compact...
Where can you get fish netting? Seems most of the stuff I find in a google search is for decoration, or will that stuff work just the same?
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I ran into the same issue as you so I hit Ebay and found all sorts of different sizes. I just bought the cheapest one I found which happened to be .75 inches which worked awesome for a ghillie suit build. After that I had a 10x10 chunk left over and that's what I use right now.
 
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