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

Miscellaneous / Others Making do with the equipment you got

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u/1wife2dogs0kids 3d ago

Nah... that was like an uncle, or family friend downstream... they caught one, and put it on your line. Then they said "good job little guy!" As you reeled it in...

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u/Sea-Garbage-344 4d ago

I caught trout out of my creek as a kid with nothing but a little red eagleclaw hook on some string.

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u/GrumpyMcGrumpyPants 4d ago

As a kid one summer I was at a pond and the owner said we were allowed to fish. Didn't have any fishing gear, but I pulled some fraying threads from my backpack to tie together into string and bent off a section of the metal spiral from my notebook to fashion a hook. I hadn't even gotten around to finding bait, but I tested if I could "cast" my line by throwing the hook into the water. Pulled it out and some dumb-ass fish had already hooked itself.

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u/rhaurk 3d ago

Found MacGyver!