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 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.īy 1770, a rod with guides along its length for the line and a reel was in use. The fishing reel was developed a wooden spool with a metal ring that fitted over the fisherman’s thumb. A wire loop was attached to the end of the rod allowing for a running line, helpful for casting and playing a hooked fish. In the 1600s, fishing tackle was improved. The earliest printed record of recreational fishing was Wynkyn de Worde’s 1496 book the Treatyse of Fysshynge With an Angle. Commercial fishing using gill nets can be traced back as far as 3,000 years to the Edo period in Japan. A simple hook was tied to the end of the line. 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.
The use of fishing rods can be traced back to over 4,000 years ago. Native Americans along the California coast fished with hooks made from wood and bone and line tackle. The Moche of Peru painted images of fishing on their ceramic pots. Early peoples in India caught fish using harpoons attached to long cords.
In China, writings and painted images refer to fishing with silk line, a hook, and a bamboo rod. Ancient Macedonians used artificial flies to catch trout. Ancient Greeks and Romans wrote about fishing and recorded images on vase paintings and mosaics. The ancient Egyptians used woven nets, harpoons, and hooks to catch Nile perch, catfish, and eels. Tomb carvings and drawings on papyrus scrolls show Egyptians fishing and preparing fish to be eaten. From Egyptians to Modern TimesĮarly cultures around the world left records of people fishing. Spearfishing with harpoons (barbed poles) was common as was the use of nets. In many cultures fish were a source of food for survival. Fishing can be dated to around 40,000 years ago. The researchers at Australian National University argue against this theory, hypothesizing that the similarly shaped hooks are instead evidence of “convergent cultural evolution in technology” around the globe.Early humans and ancient civilizations based their daily living around a source of fresh water: rivers, streams, or lakes. Some experts have suggested that these similarities in technology were the result of migration, cultural contact, or even from fish hooks left in migrating tuna. The fishing hooks discovered on Alor are circular instead of J-shaped, and resemble other ancient hooks that were once used in countries like Japan, Australia, Mexico, and Chile. They range from 23,000-year-old hooks, discovered on Japan’s Okinawa Island (the world’s oldest-known fishing implements), to slate hooks from Siberia’s late Mesolithic period (the second-oldest hooks ever found in a gravesite). Additionally, if the skeleton indeed belonged to a woman (the bones themselves haven't yet been conclusively identified), the hooks might suggest that women in ancient Alor were tasked with hook-and-line fishing, just like those in ancient Australia.Īrchaeologists have identified prehistoric fishing hooks at sites around the world. The burial on Alor Island "represents the earliest-known example of a culture for whom fishing was clearly an important activity among both the living and the dead,” the study's authors wrote. For these reasons, fish was likely an important staple food for ancient residents, and the act of fishing may have also been considered cosmologically important, archaeologists say. From this, they determined that the fish hooks and human remains were buried during the Pleistocene Epoch.Īlor Island, the largest island in the volcanic Alor Archipelago, is rocky and lacks a variety of plant life and protein sources. Researchers used radiocarbon dating to determine the age of charcoal samples found near the burial ground. Samper Carro, Stuart Hawkin, Shimona Kealy, Julien Louys and Rachel Wood. "Fishing in life and death: Pleistocene fish-hooks from a burial context on AlorIsland, Indonesia," Antiquity, Sue O’Connor, Mahirta, Sofía C. Circular rotating fish hooks found with the burial / Photograph by Sofía Samper Carro.
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