Weird technique fishing styles followed across the world
Catfish Noodling
You stick your arm down a Catfish’s throat and drag it out of the water, using your own hand as the hook.
Trout Tickling
You calmly walk up to a Trout, stick your hand in the water, and give it a tickle on the belly. The fish goes into a trance and you can pick it up without any fight.
Flounder TramplingTramping for Flounder is another weird fishing technique from Britain. It’s most popular in Scotland and even has its own tournament in southwest Scotland – the World Flounder Tramping Championships.
Drone Fishing
But it’s not just our ancestors who had wild imaginations. Some of the weirdest ways of catching fish have come from breakthroughs in technology.
Skishing
Skishing is definitely in the second camp. It’s a way of fighting fish on their own turf. “How?” you ask. By swimming out with a rod and reel and casting while treading water!
Horseback Trawling
While some coastal communities replaced their rods and reels with birds or otters, others took a different approach. They kept their fishing gear but ditched their boats, trawling the shallows on horseback instead.
Skarping
Invented by extreme sports fans in Illinois, skarping combines wakeboarding, basketball, hand-netting, and big, flying fish.
Fishing with wheels
Fish wheels are essentially watermills that produce Salmon instead of power. Each paddle of the wheel has a basket attached, which scoops fish out of the river and drops them into a holding tank