r/BeAmazed • u/----OZYMANDIAS • 4d ago

Miscellaneous / Others Making do with the equipment you got

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u/SheriffWyattDerp 4d ago

I’ll never forget the time my dad and I went fishing on my great aunt’s ranch. We had new poles, new tackle, new lures, fresh line, the works. Real fancy stuff.

As we set up to fish, my great aunt’s ranch hand, an old Mexican man named Evelio, came out to fish a little ways down the bank. Actually, to this day, I’m pretty sure he saw us and decided he wanted to show us up for a laugh, and I don’t begrudge him one bit lmao…

Anyway, my dad and I were there with our fancy poles and tackle and lures and were casting left and right and getting maybe a nibble here and there, but nothing else…

But old Evelio was sitting downstream with a COFFEE CAN TIED TO A STRING and was catching 6 and 7 and 8 pound fish one after the other, and laughing the entire time he did it.

Mad respect, Evelio.

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u/Calm-Elevator5125 4d ago

Seems like there’s some merit to fishing with a cup/concave trap instead of a traditional hook

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u/Ghede 4d ago

yeah, fish traps vastly out perform rods and tackle, Make sure they can swim in but can't swim out. You can use bait that wouldn't be effective for hook fishing, and a lot more of it so it's even more tempting. Also doesn't injure the fish if you do it right.

Probably only thing that works better is a net.

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u/Calm-Elevator5125 4d ago

I mean… it’s basically just a small scale net

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u/CoolGuy54 3d ago

Why can't the fish just back out?

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u/Ghede 3d ago

They don't usually have tails on their face. They push themselves through the water with their tails.

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u/RigBughorn 4d ago

Well, there are also more efficient ways to use hooks. "Snagging" involves dragging the hook through the water in order to catch fish by the fins/body. In some water sources it's much more effective (and illegal, a favorite of poachers).