Let’s know human relationship and begin fishing.

Archaeologists have found ancient dumps of shell and bone, cave paintings depicting fishing and even hooks made from bone. There is even a theory that indicates we might be closer to the aquatic life forms and therefore have so many close tie with water bodies. Almost seventy percent of the earth is made up of water and there are much more number of species in water than on earth.

kay, so if the world was perfect I’d like the handle length to be perhaps a centimetre or two shorter, but there’s a flat bit on the rear duplon grip which I find my left hand naturally gripping on to when I’m casting and this works really well for me. Have you ever, ever damaged a guide doing this though? I haven’t, and that includes driving many thousands of miles with rods strapped to rod racks on the front of my car, often with a lure clipped into that first guide. A few very minor niggles but of course we all like our rods to be certain ways.

Some other tribes used plant toxins to numb the fish and fish it out easily. Harappan people used one of the first bronze harpoons and similar metallic spears over iron due to corrosive resistance property of bronze. because this rod is so efficient it eats the lure up no problem at all. My shoulders never complain and I can do what I need to do with a lure like that – swimming, bumping, sink and draw etc.

Perhaps the most recognisable tool for fishing is the hook. No one knows for certain, but it is quite probable that prehistoric man was using some form of a hook over 40,000 years ago. Experts have had some problems pinning down exact dates since they know most of the materials used back then were most likely wood and not very durable. British Isle anglers catch fish with hooks made from the hawthorn bush, right up to the present day.

Angling is a method of fishing by an angle or hook. Modern day angling has gone leaps and bounds. Carbon fibre rods, aircraft quality aluminium reels, fluorocarbon lines, platinum coated hooks, portable fishing sonars, battery operated lures — there’s no end to the list. I fish with soft plastics more than I fish with hard lures these days, but you might not and that’s just fine. I do though, so I need my rods to feel at one with these lures and this type of fishing.