A few words on fishing in my area (shown on ep 8):
Just to own up to the embarrassment right away, hahah, I absolutely knew I should of made a
dip net immediately....but as it goes, on day one I just figured I'd try fishing...then that bled into
day two, three, four....basically I fished for many days early on without even a bite or fish sighting
while also losing hooks on the ever shallow shoreline surrounding my base - so I began to focus more on land game...Hunting/trapping took me all over and from the mountains the deep points were more visible. I hit the fishing again after I had the moose knowing I should make a net, but wanting even more to find an actual fishing spot that wasn’t shallow. So I finally caught one, andwas of course bummed it got off .. but if you look close I was smiling too, because I knew how dumb it was of me to ignore my better judgment and go w/o a net... Ha...but I was also happy just to of finally found a spot where fish were! I did lose my last J hook, which are Superior to circle hooks when on a lure and every hook counts.. thus the face...
My rod worked great. It was a long pole with wire eyelets and a cross stick and a wire spool as a
reel. With a heavy rock on the end of my line I could cast as far as I wanted (40+ yards), usually the amount
of line I put on my reel was the only thing holding it back as, occasionally, while the reel was
spinning on a cast the line would snag on your finger or something and BAM! A huge tangle that
would take a very long time to unwind. Those hiccups aside, it was incredibly effective, and
functionally works the same way as many of the old Soviet reels I used before in Russia.
Most of the fishing to be done lies ahead, as due to my poor success in the beginning I turned to
the more productive mammal business until after I had some security.
