How to catch small minnows with just one functional hand and no other tools beside a stream, river, lake, pond, or ocean. Ideal in areas such as mountains or deserts where vegetation is scarce and there are few insects or they are difficult to catch.
This is basically a variation of a tidal pool, but on a very small scale and most tidal pool hand fishing is no longer legal. In grade school my sister and I damed up a tidal pool on an island at the mouth of the Amazon that had a fresh water stingray in it. As the water continued to drain from it we threw stones at the ray knocking its venomous barbed tail off and eventually killing it. A nice 2 pound (1 kilogram) meal of mostly protein for a couple of young kids. Much less boney than the piranha we had caught on smaller rivers. We killed those with a machete before attempting to clean them, they are very bitty, even after dead.
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