fishing spear

[penvisser]

Hazel, pine, scraps of O1 steel.


gr, Jan

 

[Clouston98]

That's brilliant!

 

[boatman]

Nice work but the splay at the end seems a bit wide and why apparently sharpened blades as barbs? I thought the point and the barb are the important bits on each prong.

 

[penvisser]

the barbs are noth sharpened.....

 

[Harvestman]

Looks beautiful. Well done indeed.

 

[Dave]

Very cool. Are you intending to use it? Any particular species you intend to hunt?

 

[penvisser]

Its illegal here in the Netherlands to catch fish this way. But making one was cool.

 

[Huon]

It looks something like the eel spears we used to make from bamboo as kids. Yours is much slicker though. I like the metal barbs a lot. On the ones we made we'd have slightly more pronounced barbs and a short prong in the middle as well. Eels are tough beasties and used to break them fairly frequently.

For flounder we just used to use a spike driven into the end of a pole. That way you could spear them, get a hand under them to lift them up and let them just slide off the spike into a bucket. I preferred flounder to eels