Boreal forest

[flandersander]

I've read that lots of people would rather survive in the boreal forest. The problem is that i can't find any usable info on this specific place. Any survival fishing, hunting, shelter or whatever tips would be greatly apreciated!:D:cool:




Also i appologize if this was already covered in a previouse thread but i can't seem to find older threads that i have not subscribed to.

[Beowulf65]

Ask WarEagle 69 he lives there.

[flandersander]

alrighty then i'l have to do that.

[Ridge Wolf]

I've read that lots of people would rather survive in the boreal forest. The problem is that i can't find any usable info on this specific place. Any survival fishing, hunting, shelter or whatever tips would be greatly apreciated!:D:cool:




Also i appologize if this was already covered in a previouse thread but i can't seem to find older threads that i have not subscribed to.

http://boreal.net/Courses/sur2wint/winter-survival-field-session.shtml
http://www.1000topics.com/wilderness-survival-guide/canadian-boreal-forest-survival/

[flandersander]

thanks ridgewolf. Does anybody know any fishing tricks that I could use. something I don't have to be around for would be the best. I was thinking of bending a sapling, tying some line to the tip, rigging the line with some type of trigger, and tossing the hook out. when a fish bites, the trigger would let go, thereby setting the hook or possibly tossing the fish up on shore. does this seem feasable if not plausible?

[CTracker]

.. Does anybody know any fishing tricks that I could use.

Hand grenades are pretty effective. ;)

[Beowulf65]

naw just toss a line out with sinkers and and go deadline about twenty or thirty feet off shore and tie it to a big azz rock real good like, the fish take the bait and with no resistance swallows hook and in the morning or later on in the day go check. I once caught an 8 pound catfish that way.

[flandersander]

well the fish i am after are in real shallow water and are quite finicky. they can feel the line and spit it out.i think i will try it. just for kicks

[Sam]

thanks ridgewolf. Does anybody know any fishing tricks that I could use. something I don't have to be around for would be the best. I was thinking of bending a sapling, tying some line to the tip, rigging the line with some type of trigger, and tossing the hook out. when a fish bites, the trigger would let go, thereby setting the hook or possibly tossing the fish up on shore. does this seem feasable if not plausible?

Look up speed hooks. They are made for the fishing your talking about.

[Rick]

Here's a wiki on the boreal forests of canada.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiga

[Ridge Wolf]

Look up speed hooks. They are made for the fishing your talking about.

And here is a website that sells them.. http://www.bepreparedtosurvive.com/index.html

Also, they have a fishing reel that you can attach to an overhanging tree branch and put the line in the water. Apparently it holds the fish until you get there later... In an actual survival situation, you can rig up a trot line from the bank with several hooks from it... although that may be illegal in several states. I would only use that method if I was in an actual survival situation.

[cyc79]

Since northern Saskatchewan is boreal forest,info should be readily available in your area,as I see you're from SK.Google,public libraries & bookstores will all have info pertaining to this area.A good book to pick up is Bushcraft,by Mors Kochanski.Everything in it is about the boreal forests of Canada.Lots of good info.

[flandersander]

thanks cyc79. ridgewolf, rick sam. you too.

[mbarnatl]

thanks ridgewolf. Does anybody know any fishing tricks that I could use. something I don't have to be around for would be the best. I was thinking of bending a sapling, tying some line to the tip, rigging the line with some type of trigger, and tossing the hook out. when a fish bites, the trigger would let go, thereby setting the hook or possibly tossing the fish up on shore. does this seem feasable if not plausible?

I use speedhook and a survival yo-yo. You can buy them here (http://www.bepreparedtosurvive.com/Food%20Collection%20Products%20from%20Survival%20R esources.htm).

[flandersander]

how well does the survival yo yo work? does it really lift a fish out of the water?

[mbarnatl]

how well does the survival yo yo work? does it really lift a fish out of the water?

It works great. I haven't seen it lift a fish out of water, but had it lift a fish head a little bit out of the water once. Most of the time the fish are close to the surface.

[flandersander]

are these survival yoyos? http://search.ebay.ca/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=automatic+reel&category0=

[Ridge Wolf]

are these survival yoyos? http://search.ebay.ca/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=automatic+reel&category0=

Hmmm, looks like what I was talking about in my post... That link is to EBay Canada... I thought for a second that Les Stroud had a side business going.. :D

I just glanced at the page though.. they might be automatic reels for fishing rods. I think the reel that you might want has a different attachment configuration than that on a fishing rod but either of them might work.

On the link I provided earlier, you can't beat the price of those on EBay..

[marberry]

ucky i hate boreal forests (i live near one right now) , way too much underbrush and thin trees, Coniferous is much easier to live in, move to BC or something lol

[marberry]

a taiga is not boriel its coniferous , misinformation...

[flandersander]

Hmmm, looks like what I was talking about in my post... That link is to EBay Canada... I thought for a second that Les Stroud had a side business going.. :D

I just glanced at the page though.. they might be automatic reels for fishing rods. I think the reel that you might want has a different attachment configuration than that on a fishing rod but either of them might work.

On the link I provided earlier, you can't beat the price of those on EBay..

so if i attatched it to some type of tree branch or just hooked it to a rock it would yank in a good sized fish? just like that?

[Ridge Wolf]

so if i attatched it to some type of tree branch or just hooked it to a rock it would yank in a good sized fish? just like that?

I haven't used them... I am just going on what the description of them say and how to use them.. I would assume that the fish takes the bait and hooks itself.. that has happened as the fish moves off after taking the bait. Same thing happens with a trot line left overnight. Personally, if I were fishing in a real survival situation I wouldn't be fishing for a single fish in the first place.. I would make a weir, fish trap in the water and/or poison the water with one of the plant poisons available (sometimes) in the wild and catch several fish at one time. Fishing regulations are for normal times. A real survival situation would be due to causes out of my control... if the game warden wanted to question my ethics, I would explain the situation to him/her and he would be giving me a ride back to civilization (without a ticket).

[flandersander]

or a ride back to civilization in the back of a police cruiser:D

[Sam]

or a ride back to civilization in the back of a police cruiser:D

Either way you get out alive. That is what matters.

[flandersander]

true. so these things fight the fish for you?