{"id":384,"date":"2018-06-03T08:17:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T08:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survivaljar.com\/?p=384"},"modified":"2018-06-05T12:21:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T12:21:03","slug":"how-to-fish-without-a-hook-using-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/survivaljar.com\/how-to-fish-without-a-hook-using-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"How to fish without a hook using wood sticks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just imagine you become stranded\u00a0on a desert island with only some string or fishing line and the clothes on your back. How are you going to survive?<\/p>\n

Here at Survival Jar we look into the life-saving\u00a0techniques that have been handed down from generation to generation since the beginning of time. One fishing technique that I have started practicing with is called the gorge hook.<\/p>\n

How to fish without a hook<\/h2>\n

The American native Indians used a range of fishing tools like bone, stone, and wooden hooks. But the most amazing and nearly forgotten\u00a0technique of using a wooden spike to gorge the mouth of fish. This is a 7000-year-old proven technology that’s simple yet effective.<\/p>\n

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How to make a gorge hook for fishing<\/h2>\n

Start by finding a small thin piece of wood. Any tree branch twig will work well depending on the size of the fish you need to catch. The thinner and sharper the better.<\/p>\n

Use a survival knife to whittle down both ends to a sharp point hopefully its packed in your bug out bag kit<\/a>. This is what will get caught in the mouth of the fish sideways. Now, grove out the middle all the way around the piece of wood. This is where the fishing line or string will be wrapped around. The gouge stops the line from slipping off.<\/p>\n

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How to measure a gorge hook for fishing<\/h3>\n

The size of the wooden hook is very dependant on the fishes mouth. Its no good to make a gorge hook that a fish cant swallow. It just won’t work. What we need is a twig that is small enough so the fish can swallow it but large enough so when the line is pulled the gorge turns and gets set in the mouth of the fish.<\/p>\n

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I like to estimate the width of the fishes mouth and then add an extra 1\/4 to 1\/2 inch in size to the gorge hook depending on the size of the fish we are trying to catch. This way when the gorge hook turns in the fishes mouth it gets wedged\u00a0in good and tight.<\/p>\n

I have caught freshwater bass, trout, minnows, catfish, perch and the pesky carp, on the gorge hook. It may be a primitive fishing tool but it sure does work. As a prepper knowing that I can now make my\u00a0own wooden gorge hooks to catch a feed of fish for my family has greatly increased my survivability.<\/p>\n

These gorge hooks along with a survival compound bow<\/a> make perfect fishing tools. Actually, the bow can be used with a hand line to shoot arrows at the fish once you bearly them up with some food scraps.<\/p>\n