The river at that time were the main transport arteries and the boats were the main transportation. Live near the water and do not fish was impossible. Apparently, the fishing at that time was as important as hunting. Probably hunting for the fish that inhabit ponds, and animals on land started at about the same time. Man hunt for a land animals and larger fish, which are splashed near the shore.
The oldest known painting is an Egyptian angling scene of about BC shows figures fishing with rod, line and with nets. Greek philosophers Plato, Herodotus and Aristotle mentioned angling in their writings, and another Greek writer, Plutarch, gave tips about fishing lines.
Plutarch in his "Comparative biographies" of famous Greeks and Romans captured the event in fishing between Cleopatra and Antony. It is known that the Romans organized the competition for fisheries. Homer in his famous "Iliad" describes angling on bait.
In the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, Roman rhetorician Claudius Aelian wrote about Macedonian trout anglers using artificial flies as lures in the II century.
A Chinese account of about the 4th century BC refers to fishing with a silk line, a hook made from a needle, and a bamboo rod, with cooked rice as bait. References to fishing are also found in ancient Greek, Assyrian, Roman, and Jewish writings. Significant contribution to the development of fishing rods was made by the British. By the middle of the XV century fishing Tackle in England have been brought to such perfection that angling was considered both a science and an art.
In the book A Treatise of Fishing with an Angle gave specific details for the first time in English about the use of the fishing rod. The book describes the construction of hooks and rods for angling. For about years it was the basis of angling knowledge in England. In The book Walton describes the art of constructing tackle, the science of basic aquatic biology, and the philosophy of recreational anglers.
The first period of great improvement came about the midth century, when Isaac Walton and Charles Cotton were writing the classic The Complete Angler and Col. Robert Venables and Thomas Barker were describing new tackle and methods of fishing. About this time some unknown angler attached a wire loop or ring at the tip end of the rod, which allowed a running line, useful for both casting and playing a hooked fish.
Barker in mentions a salmon-fishing line of 26 yards. What was obviously needed was a means of taking up and holding such lengths and this led to the invention of the reel. Back to top. The idea of creating a semblance of modern pole float rods could come in the primitive man's head resting on the shore of the reservoir, which is seen as a hungry fish greedily grabbing incident on the surface of insects.
Apparently, it could come an idea to try to catch a fish with edible bait. Prototype of the modern fishing lines could be plant fibers or animal sinews, and as the hook can be used sharp stone or a sharpened twig of a tree that can pierce into the fish mouth.
Judging by stone inscriptions, fishing rods go back to ancient Egypt, China, Greece, Rome and medieval England, where they were called "angles" hence the term "angling" as a synonym for fishing. These early fishing rods were made of wood, bone or stone. The simplest rods were made out of a tree branch, from split Tonkin bamboo, Calcutta reed, or ash wood, as it was necessary that they be made light, tough, and pliable.
The Moche of Peru painted images of fishing on their ceramic pots. Native Americans along the California coast fished with hooks made from wood and bone and line tackle. The use of fishing rods can be traced back to over 4, years ago. The first rods were made from six-foot long bamboo, hazel shoots, or sections of a thin tapered flexible wood with a horsehair line attached. A simple hook was tied to the end of the line. Commercial fishing using gill nets can be traced back as far as 3, years to the Edo period in Japan.
In the s, fishing tackle was improved. A wire loop was attached to the end of the rod allowing for a running line, helpful for casting and playing a hooked fish. Rods were designed in sections so that they could be easily taken apart and carried from one place to another, Charles Kirby improved how fish hooks were designed and made, and gut string line was developed.
By , a rod with guides along its length for the line and a reel was in use. The first true reel was a geared reel attached under the rod in which a turn of the handle moved the spool several revolutions. Rods also were made better with the use of tough elastic straight-grained woods such as lancewood from South America and bamboo from India. In the late s, rods made were stronger and thinner by gluing together several strips of bamboo. Line made of silk covered with coats of oxidized linseed oil replaced horsehair, allowing for longer casts.
The Romans were major consumers and traders of the resources from the Mediterranean Basin. They fished mainly using different types of nets.
Since the principle of refrigeration had not yet been developed, fish which was not immediately eaten was fermented and transformed into garum , a popular condiment. During the Middle Ages in Europe, feudal lords owned the rivers and lakes. River fishing was strictly regulated and permitted for people in religious communities whose diets were punctuated by periods of fasting. However, from the middle of the 11 th century, the construction of ponds developed, heralding the beginning of fish farming.
From the 15 th century, deep-sea sea fishing and the trade of fish expanded. The Dutch formed fleets of herring drifters which pulled a long drift net and could remain at sea for weeks at a time. They were supplied with provisions by ventjagers cargo boats which also brought the catch back to shore. The first trawlers appeared in Great Britain in the 17 th century, but trawling expanded rapidly in the 19 th century when sails were replaced by steam power.
Boats became bigger and more powerful, enabling them to pull wide nets in deep water. The seafood trade intensified. During both World Wars, some trawlers were adapted to be used to sweep underwater mines and were armed to protect the fleet of fishermen from enemy vessels. As for r ecreational fishing, in the 18 th century fly fishing was initially reserved for the wealthy classes.
It gradually became more accessible as technological advances meant better equipment could be produced relatively cheaply.
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