“I’m just gonna let this bass go over there... off camera...be right back” Comes back with tartar sauce on his lip

The idea of the spring pole is that you are fishing whilst setting up camp, fetching wood for your fire, checking for potable water and attending to other necessities. If you put up a few of them in various places, you have a fair to reasonable chance of having a meal. I find it extremely difficult to hold pole and do all the other things at the same time. Static fishing has its place, as does every other kind. It all depends on the situation.

Wow, he caught more fish in a few hours than I did in 2 days of fishing!

With those large mouth bass plus those frogs I would have went with the frogs as bait with a longer line and tied it to a larger branch still on a tree. Yes I was homeless at times and had great uncles teach me how to get food in the wild. I married a woman that grew up eating mostly wild food. We made a good couple and still together nursing each other thru old age. You're video takes me back. Thank you.

Thank you for showing that fishing knot. I have been out just practicing survival fishing because I've never really fished before and I didn't know how to make the line not slip. Tried that knot and it works like a charm.

I just wanted to share my best fishing story. Fishing in a pond near sunset i was catching good sized crappie on a grasshopper lure. I caught a fish every single cast as soon as it hit the water. Lost my lure and threw in a bare hook and they were biting a bare hook and i was still catching fish nearly every cast. I caught 26 crappie in less than 30 minutes. Best fishing of my entire life in a little cow pond in OK.

We use it here in the Philippines to catch eels, catfish and giant snakeheads. Nice video sir.

Set up the spring pole first thing in the morning then spend the day fishing with the pole add any fish caught by the spring pole to your day`s catch then set the spring pole to fish overnight whilst you`re asleep....Hopefully it will catch you breakfast:)

Thank you for using the sting instead of the fishing line to show how to make the knot so that I could actually see how you were doing it! Well done.

Dude this is some good stuff. Thanks for your time. Keep up the great work.

Glad to see someone else who figures the improved clinch is pretty much the only knot you really need to know for fishing. Growing up I was taught the clinch knot then later saw a diagram of how to do the improved clinch.

For a split second upon seeing the thumbnail I wondered "Why is Brian Johnson from AC/DC doing a survival fishing video?"

Thank you for sharing your analytical thought process It's the difference between success and failure in my opinion...

Best bugout fishing video ever.

Good info at a good pace with a charismatic & believable presenter. And the hiding intro/outro (lol!) is just the amount of self-satire it needs to give it a little twist. Love it! :D

for a place like that, to keep from frustration. I just bring the fishing kit (lines/ hooks) & bread for bait. And let the surroundings do the job for me. If I want bream, I use wonder bread cuz they love the taste! If I want bass, I can use the bream as live bait! And catfish I can just use bread itself or cut the bream into pieces for that!

Hey man that knot u showed Is the one that most of us salt water new Zealand Fisherman use and we turn our hook and it wraps it round just as well it saves time if ur not using thick line I subscribed and liked keep up the good work

Pro is that you can set up as many as you have hooks for. When manually fishing you can only use 1 at a time. I have a pen rod and reel and it works great. A fishing kit for me is a dual purpose in survival, food and morale.

An inexpensive collapsible rod or even a very small light wait rod and reel fits perfect in a back pack and if you have room for line you will have room for it with a small box of hooks waits and even small lures in a size of a small box or even a rapped plastic bag. Never leave home without it.

You'r demeanor is to be envied god bless and thankyou for you'r help.

Great catch! What perfect timing! I love your videos, keep them coming please - they are very informative and enjoyable to watch.

He sounds like Merle from walking dead. I love it. Subscribed!

Great video and fishing techniques. IMO using an improvised pole is always advisable. It allows the operator to scout the fishing area for productive spots, evaluate which types of bait work best, determine fish behavior and catch fish while on the move. It's a good idea to keep track of weather and night conditions when scouting the area. If staying in area for a while, you can then use other methods to catch fish from the productive areas when you're not there, using the knowledge gained from the scout. If you have the resources and the time, you can also resort to rafting (setting shade to attract fish) or chumming. Fishing with hand line (in tight spots) or pole and also having fish/crayfish traps set is similar to hunting terrestrial and having traps set at the same time. IMO, the scout should set/build different types of suitable traps to determine which ones work for the given area and conditions. Over the long run, traps will continue to produce more food without requiring expenditure of calories, exposure to weather, or night ops. You just have to run the trap line with a reasonable schedule. If you have a light, you can check traps at night while gigging for frogs or suckers. It's also advisable to have your bow ready in case an opportunity presents itself, either waterborne or terrestrial ...

Good one. My friends and I were doing this in 1970 when I was 8.

12:30 is where he shows u how to tie the easy fishing knots. "Improved Clinch knot"

We use a limb and line and hook to jig frogs get that hook right up under the lips and lift up quick or with a rubber jig wave had frogs try to eat them and hook theirselves..cool video I like the setup

Blood knots are cool. Seems like a taught line, bowline combo. Pass line thru eye 4 inches and back thru and tie the start of tying a shoe. The closed loop end pass eye, hook, lure thru loop n tighten it. Makes s double line on the eye. 🤠

My father in law during the depression put out an abundance of simple limb lines, a lot less time consuming allowing more lines. Also , I don’t know about spider line but monofilament lasts a very long time.

something told me you were going to come running into the picture , funny,. this is sort of like a primitive jaw jacker trap line. I used to use the improved clinch knot but was told that the uni knot, the surgeons loop and the palomar knot were stronger so I tried them and discovered that they are superior knots. The improved clinch knot is made stronger when you fold the line back on itself and then tie the clinch with doubled up line

Good stuff! Keep this coming. The day will come when this knowledge will save your life!

In Louisiana they are called yoyos. They are illegal in Texas. But, it pays to have a few for survival.

It's funny you teaching those of today how to fish "survival fishing", when back when I was a kid, we couldn't afford fishing poles. Dad sprung for the fishing line and a couple lures and hooks and weights, and we went out and made poles just like you did. We rarely went home without fish to eat.

Trout lines and jug fishing. Are much more simple. But good video brother

Fish isn't one of my favourite foods but fishing is one of my skills so if shtf I'll just after suck it up..

I like your style vids. Thanks

I'm not going to say I know the "Best" way, but a much better way is a Trotline. Set a couple dozen hooks and haul every 12 hours or so. This gives you a lot more time to do other tasks.

Lots of keys to successful fishing. One of them is certainly bait. Fresh live grasshoppers are hard to beat, at least I thought so until one day the trout were biting so good that I caught just as many on a bare hook. Back to the drawing board.

Great vid, Survival Theory ! Nice fishin' too. You were making me hungry, but then I heard the music at the end and it made me want to crank up the 100 watt Marshalls !

Ottima spiegazione non ho messo neppure il traduttore 🙂 utilissimo !

I love watching these videos

May God bless you... with a real fishing rod/reel combo --- and tight lines.

The spring pole fish trap is meant to work while your doing something else like gathering fire wood not for you to sit and watch it

A yo-yo auto reel and a stick with a deep Y at the end..... survival challenge.. I've done it... Put 9 of these out along a shore line with any kind of natural bait.... constant food supply man...

This is Daryl’s brother from the Walking Dead. Daryl shot the video!

Great information Sir! You'll never got hungry!! Blessings to you and your family 👼🇺🇸 stay safe!

Just subscribed. Thanks and Godspeed. Ps ..great fan of Corporals Corner.

I think there is a way to improve this passive rod Two notched sticks that hold eachother, one with line, the other in the ground, put the line on the one not in ground, and attach it to a springy stick, and the other end tie a stick that is light to make it more sensitive, much simpler if it makes sense haha

You should have far many more subscribers!

Good point about time management. It could be the difference in survival. Also keeping occupied in these situations is imperative. Good stuff 👍.

Cool. Fish are stupid for hoppers when they are about. Now if only they were out during the Spring and the first part of Summer. Still this method would work with other bait.

That pond has more fish than half of the ones I fished last year.lol

In Louisiana, they call it poor man fishing... We all carry an Altoids container somewhere in our truck that has line, a hook, a bobber or piece of cork. And that's it... You can fish anywhere, at any time, in any location... People who think that you need to have fancy gear in order to be able to eat... Are usually fishing at the supermarket...

While you have internet, look up the prime feeding times. They have been done dates. Print them or log in the info into your journal and take it with you. I can promise that you will fill your camp with fish within that hour. Just start about 20 minutes prior to the hit time. Fish will be in a frenzy and hit anything that moves. This is not a joke. Do that all the time pit fishing or pond fishing. They'll hit again at the minor feeding time. Just not as good.

Passive fishing is always better if you're in a survival situation

Spring pole is good for night time catfish. Just a thought.

Grasshoppers (hooked correctly so they live) are wonderful bait. Crickets also. Caught many bass and panfish from the shore at Possum Kingdom back in the day.

you can buy 6 yo yo's on Amazon for 16.00 you can pack them up use whenever you want and can walk away ,they catch them for you,can reuse whenever you want take up no room because they are flat.That makes more sense to me .

The whole pole fishing thing doesn't convince me, although it might have its usefulness, a fish is way more efficient, and can be built just as easily with materials from mother nature... Using metal hooks with barbs is the best thing if going for active fishing, can't go wrong with metal hooks, you don't even need a fishing rod and any cordage will do. The real challenge would be the correct design and use of self made hooks 😊. Rate of success catching your fish will be lower than with metal hooks, but the experience will be more gratifying knowing you did it all by yourself, with nothing and completely from scratch...

I made a few of these once and was sitting on the bank alone at about 1 or 2 am. Mine were extremely over powered and used a different trigger system, needless to say just as it got completely silent I hear this crazy whoosh, and then I see an eel flying at me! I about had a heart attack!

Get a bunch of spring-loaded survival reels at $3 each. They do everything the pole did but more reliably and without the hassle.

that was quick! i checked the water ripples to see if you had edited the footage :)

Great knot, i used Paramore knot, spell check lol

Good, no BS info and philosophy. I like your style and presentation on the video. Why fish when you can gig frogs for survival food? Good job brother..

him: now if it stop raining...... rain: instantly turns up its like comedy featuring nature

Beetle spin good choice!

anything you can learn about survival is great. I just had a problem ...... him saying he would do something else if it kept raining. Fish bite better in the rain. Humans don't like it but fish sure do.

A small bell could help also

Very helpful. I like the hand pole method. In a survival situation, I would like to have more options to fit different circumstance. I have 3 or 4 four yo-yos which I know how to use, but here is where I could really use your help. Today, my three speed hooks (spring loaded)arrived in the mail, but I am clueless as to how to use them, I have been cautioned that you must be very careful when baiting them to keep from injuring yourself. So would you consider doing another fishing segment demonstrating how to set these speed hooks. That would be really appreciated. Thanks again for another well thought out video. I am aware that they illegal in some states except in an emergency which is exactly when I would use them if I knew how. Take care. Mary

Best video brother

Corporals corner - Outstanding .

Always nice to learn a different method,,, I like using yo-yos but not everyone will have them in an emergency

I like that knot.

I've never fished in my life, but if it is as easy as this, forget going to the fish market. I want to know where this pond is. It takes one second for him to throw a line in and catch a fish. WOW! The only time I have seen fishing is in the movies, and you always see someone fishing by the water and sometimes waiting all day to catch a fish.

Great video, man. Thanks for your time.

Very nicely demonstrated and Thanks .

Spend hundreds on lures,poles,bait this man uses a branch and 99 cent lure and catches more fish than I do

Finally someone who admits it's often better to just fish instead of playing with sticks. If you're truly survival fishing (fishing for food to survive), you're going to sit there and catch fish. Hell, as you showed, you could catch two or three fish (ready to start cooking) in the length of time it takes to make and rig that stuff.

For survival purposes it would have been better to show what you do when you don't have fishing line. We can build poles all day with sticks.... but the line is key. What to do when we have none?

Great video 👍

I wouldve fished during rhe rain. Higher bait ratio for larger fish.

Really? I’m thinking those who have made such positive comments have never been fishing before? Maybe? He set up a really nice auto angling device

Thank you Sir for your knowledge and experience.

This passive method is worthwhile to work overnight for you IMHO it should be set up along with using the active method

I like this guy,,he reminds me of the bad guy In the movie. The Warriors .

Realy like your youtube channel. Im glad to subscribe

Once you create it, you can keep it and reuse it until it degrades beyond practical use. Not a waste of time so long as you reuse it.

It's illegal to do right now...mostly everywhere, but mullein seed. That is the best. It knocks the fish out i have heard. Just have to be careful even in a survival situatuon not to over fish one spot

i noticed the breeze caused the water surface to make waves towards shore. thats not a good time to use a float if your planning on walking away. that bait woulve been on shore in minutes. Better off w/o a float under these conditions.

If you're in a survival situation and you absolutely can't seem to catch any fish, you can crush up the green husks from a black walnut tree and put it in a rag tied up with a rock in it and throw it in the edge of a pond or slow moving stream. The fish will be paralyzed and float to the top. I wouldn't do this unless you are absolutely starving.

Thank you my Brother

Nice time management and technique good sir.

Ill do that knot after dinner, mine sucks to tie dark

Guess it's just me...an old guy who grew up not that far from Memphis, TN (and the Mississippi River), but a Trotline is BY FAR, the ABSOLUTE BEST way to 'survive' by fishing (without expending a lot of energy). Simply run a mason line (or 'Cathoula Tarred Line') across the creek, river, lake end, whatever...and every 4-8 feet, run a 2-ft mono line (tied to the tarred line with a prussic knot) as a leader...bait, then 'run the line' (walk it, float it, whatever) and take your fish off. I've caught 500 pounds of catfish in a single day...not that big of a deal, and no 'automatic fishing pole' (or tree line, or whatever) is going to compare...learn how to set up a Trotline, and forget all this other complex trash...it's already hard enough getting enough food (calorie-wise) from fish, to make fishing 'survival worthy'...last thing you want to do is work your tail off rigging spring snares to MAYBE catch ONE fish...when you run a trotline, bait it, and then simply walk-and-check-it once every 8-hours or so...

Like the knot lessons!

Lol that was fast! Nice job!

Great video

this set up would be good for overnight

Nice video bro

Thanks for sharing, be safe...