This simple project of learning to organize fishing hooks with safety pins takes less than a minute, and can make your fishing trips much less stressful. Simply sort your fishhooks by type, and then run a safety pin through the hook’s eye. This not only keeps your fishhooks sorted, keeps them in place, and it […]
Category: Outdoor Life
How to Make a Bottle Cap Fishing Lure
I saw this brilliant idea on YouTube and had to share it. A very smart guy figured out how to make a Bottle Cap Fishing Lure out of a discarded beer bottle caps. He even made a business of recycling buckets of beer caps harvested from local bars until he was sued by beer […]
Knots: Bowline (Including Tying One-Handed)
I had an interesting childhood – my Dad and I were a lot alike, and when I was growing up he jumped with both feet into the world of rope courses – he single-handedly built several small courses in Tennessee which, coupled with his work as a Park Ranger fed my infatuation with survival techniques […]
How to Build a Survival Squirrel Snare
Trapping gives much more meat per unit of energy expended than hunting does. Using snares is a passive activity; you can set several traps in multiple locations and check them once a day leaving you free to do other useful work while still gathering food. Hunting requires active attention; you cannot stalk a deer […]