How to Make a Fishing Rod from Scratch (I ACTUALLY Caught a Fish!)
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I'm making an ancient fishing rod from scratch! Fashioning a pole, making hooks, and even growing my own silk to make a line. Will I be able to cast out and actually catch a fish? Check it out!
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your gunna confuse the heck out of archaeologist's in the future
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If you guys ever do a video on more advanced agriculture you should try to do it with the millennial farmer because your both in Minnesota but that is just a suggestion
I think youce realized that spear fishing ir net fishing is waaaaay eadier until metalurgy discovers aluminum and factories lol
Good video. Props for showing how strong silk is
About that worm digging device; you could also put that stick in the mud and wobble it around to get worms, this is because then they think it's raining and when that actually happens they'll drown, so that's why they come up, for the mole method they'd also be digging downwards, that's why I recommend this method more.
Tip from a life-long fisherman. If you are using the weak line that you are, it's really important to make your rod as flexible as possible, so that it can take some of the strain. Any kind of young wood would work well, so long as it is nice and springy, and bends well under minimal stress. It makes it easier to cast the line (elastic to kinetic energy), play the fish (much more sensitive) and doesn't strain the line as much. Hope this tip might help for version 2.0!
“Ten bedroom all bathroom unit” okay that was funny
Thank you 🤓
Ever see a comment and think "I wish I thought of that" ?
That silkworm house has the same energy as when Jenna Marbles made an advent calendar for her dogs
Those silkworms paid rent with their lives.
@@placeboobshere5458 "2 thing are certain in life; death as taxes"
That time lapse of the silkworms making their cocoons may have been one of the coolest things I've seen on TH-cam.
This fishing rod looks like one of the most refined peices made in this series yet, nice work.
has bamboo, "today we are going to be making something"
yeee ngl the pole looks good but the catch rates could be improved if they sharpened the hooks more frequently!
could have made a tenkara style cane rod pretty easily... I don't know why they bothered with a reel when we know that reels were not used until around the victorian age.
Oh ur hook u need a barb so they can’t get of
@@lucat4649 that does tend to help.
"It's the iron age soon" lolol sounds like he's tired of cutting trees with bronze tools (◠‿◕)
I can’t wait for his first nuclear reactor
@@lilbiggums747 how to make a Davy Crockett lol
(❍ᴥ❍)
Fun fact bronze is actually harder and retains a better edge than iron iron was just much easier to find and cheaper because less labor
XAcTrap wait until he discovers steel
Has bamboo, "Let's hack down a tree to make a fishing pole!"
Has bamboo, "Let's make our guides with metal loops!"
With just a bamboo pole and some fishing string he doesn't actually need all the bronze things
he's trying to challenge himself
@@santiagocortez9554 including the hook.
They do it as if they dont have bamboo there...
Well this fishing pole was way overdeveloped for it own good. I'd be way easier to simply use a long stick (preferably bit flexible at the tip), attach the silk to the to up to the tip and have the silk for the wire be the length of the pole. and a bone hook. This way you can cast quite properly and actually catch fish (without cheating by adding modern wire and hook). If you wanted to be fancy, you could have done a compound rod.
Reel is for bigger fish.
I agree, I work at a Boy Scout camp and we use simple reel-less bamboo rods all the time, elementary-aged children can catch small catfish with very little effort.
What you are referring to is called Tenkara. It is essentially the Japanese version of Western Fly Fishing, that is, no reel with limited amount of line on a long (13 to 15 ft) rod with a flexible yet strong tip
Exactly and with a bone hook you can easily add a barb(or anchor) to it so the fish cant slip out.
I agree. That fishing rod looks over-engineered. You can actually get the same result (roughly same size of fish) with just horse tail line tied to the end of a rod. To fish, you just dangle the line into the water from a pier then jerk the rod up when you caught something. You also don't need a floater, since you can feel the fish pulling on the line. I used to do on a lake in upstate NY during summer.
Dee H I’ve been doing this since I was five
Pro tip to catch worms,
1. soak some cardboard in the water. Leave it on the garden soil at night.
2. return in the early morning before the sun rise.
3. Flip the cardboard, you'll get dozen of worms in it. But it depends on the quality of soil, if it's a good soil you can get 2-3 dozen.
I'm not a fisher but I've been hunting worms for my compost bin so thank you for helping me a lot.
@@thunderusnight anytime bro, that's even more better. Because if you do this the most type of worms that came up is red worm and red wigglers which is the best worm for vermicomposting. Although you still can catch some big chunks of earthworms. You can dig some of the top soil under the wet cardboard to gain more result
@@noustrant thank you again for extra knowledge and tips! Have a great day today.
Just put a shovel move it forward and backwards.It will save so much time
Soap and water works better
I love lauren!! her little silkworm house made my day
Next: How to make a River from scratch, Theres actually a fish.
Indeed
He’s going to cry a river because of how bad his fishing pole is.
Luke L. But he made one did you? 🤨 😂 jk I know that was supposed to be funny.... or at least I assume so
Nah, that'll be the NEXT reset, where he has to go develop the CONCEPTS of nature before he invents
YUKINO BEST WAIFU! ! !
I love how excited she is about the silk worm house
using bronze for everything is like when you learn a new word as a child and keep using it all the time, appropriately or not
The "all bathroom" joke was surprisingly funny.
Growing slikworms is so fascinating
Tbh the worms look like evil grannies from cookie clicker lmao
It's also cool that they let the silkworms fully mature to moths. Industrial silk production involves boiling the cocoon and killing the silkworm inside. Google "peace silk" to learn more about the moral questions involved-apparently there's a movement to raise awareness about this kind of stuff.
7:50 forbidden marshmallows
Only if you're a coward.
the one dislike is from the fish
6 dislikes. Here comes the moths!
I see 10 fish
I get why some people won't like it. Ipersonally like the new jokes etc like the moths and the pixelated area 😂. But nerds not gonna like this. They generally want super serious stuff like Andy's old videos
And now the public housing silk worms added their dislikes. I guess they got jealous that their friends got a fancy home. Landlords are kinda trash, we know.
the other 181 are people who meant to like the video but their fingers were slippery because of all of the Doritos that they had eaten and they slipped and disliked accidentally
Does anybody know how old the earliest known fishing reel actually is ?
This makes me curious, was expecting some version of 10 year old boy scout's fishing pole, not something that complex.
Well done.
At least as early as 4th century AD in China
@@KaitouKaiju I had the same thought too. We are just past bronze age though right? 400 AD and 1200BC is a HUGE gap. I love the fishing pole but he may be getting ahead of himself in terms of what technologies were introduced and when. I think some things are done this way to prevent redundancy. Like, "I made a bronze age fishing pole a.k.a stick and string", and then 10 episodes later "I made another fishing pole... with a REEL!". Keep up the hard work, love this series!
@@SchizoidApollo this could have been made with technologies available at the time. It's just that there are no records, which might be for a variety of reasons. since the records we have don't treat it like it's brand new, it's likely been around long before it was written down.
According to the hunters mound builders around 5000 years. They were hunters and were fishing too. You should look into that. There were called Adena Culture. Good luck
"complex" no its really simple, and unpractical, especially the reel. a stick with the line at the tip would have been better than this clunky unwieldy thing and would probably catch better, im speaking from experience here.
Reminds me of my childhood. I usually go back to my hometown in the summer and during then, my uncle would take me and my cousins out to make fishing rods out of bamboo. We would catch fish in the small pond next to the house. Those were good memories. My uncle died last year to a car accident, now I make the fishing rods myself. Good days those were.
i was today years old when i learned that worms are terified of homade washboards
Worm Summoning is pretty wild tbh. There's competitions about it and everything
I honestly thought they were joking until they got some worms
Blue Jean (they/them) me aged 68 just learnt that by the youth
The way I used to learn it was to stick a shovel straight up in the ground and then just wiggle it. While not as interesting for a video, it is more effective imo
It does work and whille not 100% sure why its most likley because it sound somwhat like rain to them
The gummy worm bit 🤣
This is hands down one of the best seeries on youtube
Fun fact, dont make 10 minute highlight vids, noone wants 10 mins of highlights, like 5-6 max
"I hope we get to the Iron Age soon" lol love that
- Andy (How to make everything) 2020
I bet bronze age teens where thinking the same. ;P
Lauren is The Best! She should have a show of her own
Took me a sec to realize those were sourworms, I was like "what kind of crazy coloured worms do you have in America?!"😂
Anybody notice that he has quickly become more manly and muscular as the series progresses? It's dope. Let's make him into a Roman soldier one day.
yes
Lauren is such a fresh addition to the channel. Bad jokes from time to time, but they work.
I found her irritating at first but now I think she is a great addition
@@Kyle-gw6qp happy to hear i've changed your mind! :)
in another life, i was a dad.
@@laurenapolis You remind me of a punk kid I knew in Pittsburgh in all of the best ways.
I love how you used "we can't know what exactly they're poles look" like as an excuse to just make a "ancient" version of a modern fishing pole which is basically just a modern fishing pole but shity and weighs a lot
Look, i was expecting a lot here, but moths getting on their sexy time???
I'll be honest, that part actually freaked me out enough to google whether there were already silkworms in the US. (There are, they were introduced in the early 17th century, apparently.)
Seriously, introducing non-native species is NOT something to mess around with.
@@corwinweber693 In fairness domestic silkworms have been selectively bred over the millennia to the point where they can barely function without human assistance. In their larval stage they eat only a single type of plant, their adult stage is incapable of flight and they lack pigmentation which means they have no camouflage to speak of.
@@petermoore5981 aka they are knockoff 2 yearolds
@@Sohzy today I learned silk worms are freeloaders like those winning sacks of potatoes who come out of a woman's butthole.
Bro they’re so fluffy like everyone is crazy about catgirls but where are my government mandated mothgirls?
Hey, Andy and HTME Family!
I know you're not fishing for compliments, but the effort you put in is truly reflected in these quality videos!
Much love from Suriname!
Ps.
I hope your knitting group got/liked a second serving of the silkworm pupae!
I respect the attempt at grunting for worms.
How appropriate this video is for anyone who lives in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Minnesota. You have an abundance of lakes to try a homemade fishing rod on. Great video. Cheers!
I love this series so much. It’s such an interesting and rewarding challenge you’ve taken on. Keep making videos!
This is one of my new favorite channels.
Yes nothing screams high quality youtube content than systemic silkworm mating. Good job
I personally feel like Lauren was such a fantastic addition to this Channel. She adds so much personality that makes the videos more fun and enjoyable to watch. I think this channel has become a really awesome blend of scientific, fun, and ultimately enjoyable!
6:26 bruh when the moths just came out there cocoon they start ❤️❤️💕
i love the video. i actually caught a blue gill from my creek with my hands a few days back. love the vids!
MrLispy it’s only been out for a few minutes you couldn’t have watched it
@@dillonfinds5776 i knew its be good and it was. after all my name is eli like elijah the prophet.
I feel like an early fishing rod might have used something more akin to a hobo reel, where it has no moving parts and you manipulate the string by hand
Lauren is a good addition to the show.
Bro, Lauren is an absolute keeper. I hope you put a ring on that because not only is she pretty and funny, but she's also really smart and ingenuitive.
If MacGyver's cousin got stranded on an island...
This was really inspiring. Me and a friend are going fishing for my dad's birthday. It would have been his 47th
Sorry about your dad 💛💙💜💚 just remember to build the lake first
The last time I was this early people actually made fishing rods from scratch 😔
Sad
Sericulture is always a fun past-time. You get the pleasure of watching them grow well, and get the reward of the silk at the end.
I didn't know you could use the silk after the moths came out of their cocoons, I thought they were boiled while they were still in there and killed.
That's how it's done.
They were still in there I think he just showed some of them hatched
Some of them dont manage to make it out and die in the cocoon so I'm pretty sure most people use the dead ones
To get out they break the thread so no, you need to kill them to actually use the silk
You can use an empty cocoon as what's called a "staple fiber"; a term that refers to any fiber that's found as several short lengths. Wool and cotton are staple fibers, to make long threads you must first spin them. Staple fibers are fine for clothing, but for a fishing line you ideally want long, unbroken strands--and those are obtained by boiling an unbroken (and thus occupied) cocoon.
This is important when you're lost in a forest.....and I like so much
This is easily your best video. The editing, the process, everything and everyone is perfect !
I have only watched the intro to this video and have already fallen in love with the premise of your series Andy!
We have all fallen prey to the creature comforts afforded to us from centuries of growth, but it is important to reflect and understand that life is not a simple thing.
Keep up the great content!
Intro: Can an average person do it by himself
4 minutes later: someone else come to help
He's done it alone for years, it's a great internship for them
He could do it alone but doesn't
I mean also the people inventing this stuff weren’t completely alone lol
mystery person I know
Electron9 yes and I was also telling a joke at the same time
Dare I say, I think you guys are actually getting good at all this craftsman stuff! Maybe it's just a change in how this is all edited lol, but I've seen a lot of skill and capacity being developed through this series.
As always, thank you for the quality, wholesome, interesting content.
Biggest thing that’s stopping them from fishing properly to get foot fish is that they are using a WAAAAAY to big hook, the oldest way people made hooks for small mouth fish and small fish is with a small splinter of bone, sharpened on both sides, and then tied off on the center of the bone splinter. It’s sharp, the length of the bone determines the size of the mouth of the fish it will catch and it’s a very very good way of getting a small fish. LOVED the video! Keep making more!
This is definitely one of my favorite projects. This is awesome
Bröther I like your lamp
Minecraft players: “You know, i’m something of a craftsman myself.”
Can cofoom
You should go outside
The silk moths are adorable!!
This is my favorite channel. Reconstructing everything ever written about being developed is novel idea for our day in age when society only thinks about how to more uselessly use the culmination of all this tech.
Mucho Paz y Gracias!
The first thing I searched in the comments was for Lauren 😂
GREETINGS 😂
Love your work where did you get those tattoos from and what do they mean
@@laurenapolis you're my internet crush haha sorry :-p ! But yeah, you're doing a great job on the show and fun to watch!
Lauren's commitment to perfect pink nails through all this messy pottery and woodwork is both fascinating and commendable
I'm replying to this thread just so there will be 3 Joe Os in a row. And I think Lauren is great on the channel too.
Nice bronze age electric furnace you have unlocked there.
I noticed this too and several other small things. I think once they do it once with the shitty technologies they can use modern ones I think thats their rule but In reality its just for education. I used to get kinda annoyed that they were breaking the rules but yeah.
@@shanecoyle3676 What did you expect? Its literally a small group of people progressing through thousands of years of technology and refinement. Of course there going to take shortcuts.
@@Nagol93 Yeah of course But Big things like not even melting your own metal or building a proper kiln. I feel like he wastes a lot of time of stuff that isnt that important. For example the weapons series sure 1 melle weapon and 1 ranged weapon grand but leave it there. Anyway thats just my opinion personally.
@@shanecoyle3676 but even the shitty technologies weren't even functional. I get using a modern furnace to save time but when the primitive one they made wasn't even capable of making similar results its a bit cheaty
@@tysonbates5747 Yup totally agree hence why I said they shoyld make a kiln or something I mean they have clay and use modern clay so just make find a design for a decent (kiln might not be the right thing) but I suppose furnace and just nake it with some clay.
When me and my family go fishing, we actually make fishing poles sometimes if there isn't enough poles for everyone. People love to leave their tangled lines by the river so it takes just a couple minutes to find some good line. Bamboo grows everywhere so it's also easy to find, for the float we use a piece of styrofoam, that's also easy to find specially from abandoned coolers. The hook is a bit difficult to find but we always have some extra ones, then we just attach everything and there you go, a fishing pole.
I love finding a new channel with an huge back log of videos for me too watch.
I'll be honest, I thought Salt Life was nothing more than a sticker a bunch of people in my area like to put on the back window of their big dumb trucks. There's even a more specific local version now, Brackish Life. We're near the Chesapeake Bay.
maryland gangggggggggg
“And I made a nice leather grip, so it is easier to Handle” nice. Puns
This is crazy ! Good job guys!
Lauren has truly made a fine addition to the team! Awesome to see her getting more comfortable with the camera.
WOW FISHING
I LOVE FISH
ich bin ein Fisch. Oh no
@@sonicvenom8292 ein kliner fish
ich bin ein kleiner Fisch. Very small fish.
@@sonicvenom8292 ya. yes
production quality has went up so much lately
Love how Lauren does all this work with fabulous nails...I'd be chipping nails left and right
I finally cut them a few episodes ago but I was surprised they lasted!!
Loving the series keep going
i know it might be hard but could you someday try to make a house/hut like they did a long time ago
Would this be the equivalent of a Flimsy Fishing Rod or the next stage up in Animal Crossing: New Horizons..?
I’m a huge fan of fishing and your channel so I was extremely happy to see you make this!
Absolutely hilarious!!
Thanks so much for a clever edu content
Imagine flexing your Premium Quality Homemade Organic Silk
This feels like Dr.stone
I’m glad i wasn’t the only one
@@shockymc same
This is surprisingly complex and well executed
This was excellent video ;-) thanks as usual!
I like Lauren. Hope she sticks around.
That fishing rod should be in a museum, it looks amazing like an actual peice of history.
You should try making line that is a lot stronger but ditching the reel so you can just yoink the pole up to set the hook without needing to worry about snapping the silk thread. My inspiration for the idea is the fishing pole from The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess
I want to see this man build a full out troller. Make some iron nails, saw some nice boards. He could actually feasibly make a clinker hulled ship. Make a single mast and just have a tiller in the back, and then make a little crane to drag the net along. It’d be awesome.
Love your videos! Just keep them coming!
Absolutely EXCELLENT!!
Always wanted to do this might give it a go now 😁
Learned a lot! Thanks!
How did I come across this how ever I did I love it this is a series I've been wanting
a fishing line made of silk must be the biggest flex back in the day.
In the future, I’d love to see you make a split cane rod! They’re a little more complex, but they’re more sensitive than a straight piece of hardwood, and are actually still used today by some traditional fly fisherman!
I’ve been doing this since I was five and and good luck with slack pole(hand line on a stick) they give more control then a hand line and work well
silkworm manor made me so happy
Dang girl you have the patience of a saint for doing the arduous tasks!
You have created an amazing channel, so glad I found it!
Your channel is amazing guys!
Nicely done
fun fact once worked at a camp and they made hand made fishing poles cause it was a nature camp they work surprisingly well ~~even if just stick line paperclip
That silk making process is INSANE. Unraveling those cocoons in boiling water 🤯
Honestly amazed it worked at all
i love how this is getting more and more professional
I am going fly fishing Friday for the first time love your work
No camping my dumbass
the type of fish you caught Andy, is a blue gill. It is a freshwater fish that lives from east of the rockies. Its lifespan is 4-8 years.