This spear is easy to make and use although you will have to come up with some sort of bait to get yourself close enough to use it.

In a survival situation, this could prove to be your only, relatively easy way to catch dinner!

This is a simple fishing spear with a little twist to it, you can replace the spines with ease if broken.

The fishing spear started out as a six foot piece of cedar about a inch and a half round, the bark was stripped off and then shaved down to about a inch all of the length.

Then the end of the fishing spear was split down about ten inches then wrapped with waxed string so when the wedge was pushed in to open the fork it would not split any further down.

Before the fork is opened up you can take a nail or awl and make your holes that hold the spines, that are black locust thorns.

After your holes are put in at an angle toward the middle of fork, you push in the wedge to open the fork.

Then you cut off the locust thorns from the locust tree branch.  The longer ones go in at the end and the shorter up in the middle of the fork.  Then just hammer the thorns in the holes.

Then I took the waxed string and tied it at the bottom of the thorns and spiraled it up and around covering the back of each thorn and tied it off at the end of the fishing spear. This ensures it is easy to change the spine by just sliding the string out off the way of the broken thorn.  Then pushing it out and replacing it with a new one.  Then hammer it in and cover the back of the thorn up with the string again to help keep it in place.

Using this spear, like using any spear, to catch fish will take a lot of practice; once you get the hang of it, though, it is easily more effective than a straight spear.

If you are facing a survival situation with no fishing equipment, this survival fishing spear will at least give you a way of catching one of the most abundant sources of nourishment available – fish!

To learn more about fishing in a survival situation and what you can do, please check out Reality Survival.

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