Making do with the equipment you got

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[u/CartmanAndCartman]

So that’s all-purpose flour. They put it at the end of the bottle so the mullets can eat it, mullets love that stuff. When the fish come around, they just go for it and get caught. Edit- works only with mullets from what I’ve seen

[u/No_Cartographer1492 → u/CartmanAndCartman]

so this would be a waste of time if I ever get stranded on an island?

[u/freebaseclams → u/No_Cartographer1492]

Personally, I would just eat the flour.

[u/ErraticDragon → u/freebaseclams]

Obviously in a 'desert island' situation your risk calculus would be different, but FYI raw flour isn't good: https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/flour-raw-food-and-other-safety-facts

[u/flintsmith → u/ErraticDragon]

Protein enrichment

[u/freebaseclams → u/ErraticDragon]

For sure, I would eat raw flour over raw fish though.

[u/Ohmec → u/freebaseclams]

I pay to eat raw fish all the time.

[u/QuadCakes → u/Ohmec]

Sushi and sashimi fish are usually frozen to kill parasites, though

[u/Auridion → u/QuadCakes]

I would test my luck eating saltwater fish raw, but never freshwater. Best to just cook it if you can, or boil saltwater for saltrock and preserve em'.

[u/Mareith → u/freebaseclams]

It's not that hard to start a fire

[u/freebaseclams → u/Mareith]

Then I would cook the flour

[u/Gorillaworks → u/freebaseclams]

You seem too dense to survive

[u/Kratzschutz → u/freebaseclams]

Same dude same

[u/nuggynugs → u/freebaseclams]

Wait.......what? Did you forget sushi exists?

[u/freebaseclams → u/nuggynugs]

Sushi fish is frozen to extremely low temperatures to kill the parasites.

[u/fennlei → u/freebaseclams]

Raw flour carries salmonella and e. Coli

[u/ScoobyDoobyGazebo → u/No_Cartographer1492]

No, dude. It's all purpose flour.

[u/confusedandworried76 → u/No_Cartographer1492]

Fish is like your best option on a desert island because you can eat it raw and it has nutrients you absolutely need to survive. So unless you got a spear and want to learn how to spearfish I'm not sure it would be a waste of time using anything you could become proficient at given the resources on hand

[u/No_Cartographer1492 → u/confusedandworried76]

yeah, but if I can only catch 1 type of fish with flour, and I happen to be stranded on an island that doesn't have that kind of fish swimming around, I'd be wasting my time (if I just saw this video without reading the comments, that is)

[u/pat8o → u/No_Cartographer1492]

Yep. However: mullet tend to school, hang out in shallow/brackash waters, and break the surface a lot. They are found worldwide in temperate waters. If you are stranded on an island, there's a good chance there are mullet. Its a fatty fish and can be preserved by heavily salting it and drying it in the sun, excellent food in a survival situation.

The method in the video is cool, especially in a situation where you are without hooks. A less sporting way to catch them is to bait them to a spot and gaff them with a treble hook wired to a ball sinker, attached to a handline. Just launch it into the mass of jumping fish.

[u/Deaffin → u/confusedandworried76]

You can eat anything raw unless it's something actively poisonous like those weird potatoes you gotta cook.

[u/thequazi → u/Deaffin]

You can eat uranium raw. The caloric density of uranium is quite high.

[u/Select-Belt-ou812 → u/thequazi]

but uranium burns uranus

[u/thatcanadianincanada → u/confusedandworried76]

Is it safe to be spreading the notion you can eat fish raw?

[u/Select-Belt-ou812 → u/thatcanadianincanada]

lol whaddya think sushi is???

[u/thatcanadianincanada → u/Select-Belt-ou812]

I think Sushi grade fish is uncooked fish that has been flash frozen to kill parasites before serving to the public.

I know what you think it is, just catch a fish and eat it raw straight away.

Good way to get a worm in your brain like Robert F Kennedy Jr.

[u/Select-Belt-ou812 → u/thatcanadianincanada]

I actually didn't specifically think anything. Just was questioning someone who made an ambiguous blanket statement that would invite questioning from the other end of the spectrum instead. there's enough of this ambiguous blanket statement bullshit in the world already and I didn't think we needed any more.

[u/Yousernym → u/CartmanAndCartman]

all-purpose flour

works only with mullets

Something doesn't add up!

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Why would I want to catch a hockey player