Greek Fishing Essay
Fishing has been around forever and you can track it! It has been a method of catching food used by the ancient people in our original civilizations. Today it is more of a sport and people fish for fun instead of as a method of survival. Today we even have tournaments where professional anglers compete to catch the biggest fish.
Before the Common Era fishing even goes back to the ancient Egyptians in 2000 B.C.E. There is evidence of them fishing with rods made of sticks and hand woven nets. In ancient China they used bamboo rods with silk like, a needle for a hook, and cooked rice as bait. Even today we suffer similar problems as they did while fishing: Where can we find the fish? How do we approach them? What tackle and bait should …show more content…
The Macedonians led by Alexander the Great were said to catch trout using artificial flies. The Romans thought that fish were more valuable than the Greeks. The Romans mainly used nets, spears, traps, and hand lines. Sometimes they attached the hand lines to a very short rod with a little bit of horse hair at the end where they would tie the hook. At this time period they started crafting fish hooks out of bronze and iron to make them sharper and durable, instead of bone, wood, and stone. The Romans used flies, worms, spiders, fish, other raw or cooked meat and many other kinds of bait. They had a philosophy that fish, just like humans, would rather eat cooked than raw meat. They would even sometimes add spices while they were cooking the bait to make it more flavorful for the fish! They started using something new to weigh that bait down. They would use a small pebble or a ball of lead to bring the bait down and catch fish closer to the ocean floor. They also used the trident just like the Greeks except the Roman version was much longer. They used two different kinds of nets: a type of drag net that would catch smaller fish on the bottom and a very large version of the seine net that required multiple men to carry and use. They used a small, low in the water wooden boat that contained only two men. One of the men would fish while the other would row the
Before the Common Era fishing even goes back to the ancient Egyptians in 2000 B.C.E. There is evidence of them fishing with rods made of sticks and hand woven nets. In ancient China they used bamboo rods with silk like, a needle for a hook, and cooked rice as bait. Even today we suffer similar problems as they did while fishing: Where can we find the fish? How do we approach them? What tackle and bait should …show more content…
The Macedonians led by Alexander the Great were said to catch trout using artificial flies. The Romans thought that fish were more valuable than the Greeks. The Romans mainly used nets, spears, traps, and hand lines. Sometimes they attached the hand lines to a very short rod with a little bit of horse hair at the end where they would tie the hook. At this time period they started crafting fish hooks out of bronze and iron to make them sharper and durable, instead of bone, wood, and stone. The Romans used flies, worms, spiders, fish, other raw or cooked meat and many other kinds of bait. They had a philosophy that fish, just like humans, would rather eat cooked than raw meat. They would even sometimes add spices while they were cooking the bait to make it more flavorful for the fish! They started using something new to weigh that bait down. They would use a small pebble or a ball of lead to bring the bait down and catch fish closer to the ocean floor. They also used the trident just like the Greeks except the Roman version was much longer. They used two different kinds of nets: a type of drag net that would catch smaller fish on the bottom and a very large version of the seine net that required multiple men to carry and use. They used a small, low in the water wooden boat that contained only two men. One of the men would fish while the other would row the