If you’re at all interested in survivalism, prepping, or primitive living, you’ve likely spent a lot of time considering how to get food for yourself in the wilderness without complex equipment or techniques. Knowing how to catch fish with minimal gear is a crucial part of this. You may have already thought to yourself that fishing may seem like one of the easiest and most obvious ways to add protein to a survivalist diet.
After all, almost everyone knows how to fish, right? Perhaps, but fishing in survival mode is going to look very different from spending a day down by the trout stream with your rod and reel. Even if you have a fishing pole with you in a crisis or manage to jerry-rig one, it will not be the most efficient or reliable way to sustain yourself or fill out your diet.
Instead, most viable survival fishing techniques rely on what’s called passive fishing, using one of a number of set-it-and forget-it snares and traps that will allow you to leave your fishing setup untended all day, returning to find dinner dangling at the end of a line. There are also some good active fishing techniques that don’t require much equipment or skill, and it would be great to get some quick dinner in a pinch, so read on to learn the best methods for catching fish in the wilderness.
