Old Fashioned Fishing Pole

I normally do “how-to” posts based on something I have made myself–but this one was nestled so well into a little how-to, that I couldn’t mess with it too much.  It comes from the middle of an article in the North Bay Nugget** titled: Catching Fish the Old Fashioned Way by George Walters

I also haven’t tried this one myself, but it seems pretty easy!

“Here is a good one,” he said, bending it down so we could cut it. With that, he took out his jackknife and we went to work and skinned it.

Reg then took some line and attached it to the end of the pole, wrapping the remaining line around it, then putting on a hook he had made out of an old piece of barb-wire fence.

Once that was done, he went into the house and brought out an old cork he saved from an old bottle, slit a small hole in it and tied it on the line about two feet above the hook.

“Well,” he said, “looks like you are all set to go fishing.”

I know that this sounds pretty simplistic, but that’s how people did it back in ”the day.”  Not to mention, that’s the best use I’ve heard of for old barbed wire–not to mention the used cork.  This story was a junk creation nugget in the middle of a public interest piece.  Mr. Walters may not have even known he had it! 

**It may be of interest to you that I used to live in North Bay, so this post caught my eye (unintentional, but still good, pun) for the junk creation and the locale!