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A fishing fence?
Apr. 23rd, 2010 09:43 amThe other day one of the Japanese TV shows showed what I considered an intriguing twist on fishing. I gather it's a very old technique. Mostly, you need a bunch of woven bamboo fence.
In the show, first the fisherman stopped at a stick in the water. He pulled up a line with a set of branches with leaves all bundled together, shoved a very fine mesh net on a pair of poles like a sledge underneath, and pounded on the branches. Then he hauled in the fine net, and dumped a bunch of little tiny shrimp into his bait bucket.
Next, he ran the boat over to the real fishing spot. They didn't give us a good overhead look at it, but it seemed to be kind of a spiraling set of woven bamboo fences in the water. He took the boat into the fences, beside the central swirl of fences. At this point, he dipped a regular fishnet -- I would've said it was a landing net -- into the water in the central swirl. And he pulled up two or three fish. Then he dipped into that central swirl again, and hauled up some more.
I gather that after you get the fish out, you put the bait into the center. Then you leave and come back later after more fish have had a chance to blunder their way into the maze. Apparently there are one-way entrances that make it easy for the fish to go in, from the biggest opening down to the final central swirl. I think it's kind of a lobster pot or other passive trap, made out of bamboo fencing. Fish swim in, but they can't swim out?
Aha! Fishing weir apparently is the proper name for these.
In the show, first the fisherman stopped at a stick in the water. He pulled up a line with a set of branches with leaves all bundled together, shoved a very fine mesh net on a pair of poles like a sledge underneath, and pounded on the branches. Then he hauled in the fine net, and dumped a bunch of little tiny shrimp into his bait bucket.
Next, he ran the boat over to the real fishing spot. They didn't give us a good overhead look at it, but it seemed to be kind of a spiraling set of woven bamboo fences in the water. He took the boat into the fences, beside the central swirl of fences. At this point, he dipped a regular fishnet -- I would've said it was a landing net -- into the water in the central swirl. And he pulled up two or three fish. Then he dipped into that central swirl again, and hauled up some more.
I gather that after you get the fish out, you put the bait into the center. Then you leave and come back later after more fish have had a chance to blunder their way into the maze. Apparently there are one-way entrances that make it easy for the fish to go in, from the biggest opening down to the final central swirl. I think it's kind of a lobster pot or other passive trap, made out of bamboo fencing. Fish swim in, but they can't swim out?
Aha! Fishing weir apparently is the proper name for these.
