For the most part, fishing is an easy way to get your hands on survival food beyond scavenging or foraging.

A DIY survival fishing kit is compact, light and easy to store; best of all, it lets you fish without having to haul around a full-fledged rod, reel and tackle carrier.

Tools and Materials:

• 1” Threaded PVC Adapter
• 1” Threaded PVC Cap
• 1” PVC Pipe Of 10” Length
• PVC Cleaner
• PVC Cement
• Scrap Wood
• Paracord
• One Small Washer
• Fishing Line Of 100.’
• Drill Bit Of 1/8”
• Drill Bit Of 1/16”
• Hand Drill.

Attach The Threaded PVC Adapter To The Pipe

First step is to connect the 1” PVC pipe to the threaded PVC adapter of 1”. You could either press the two materials together or glue them employing PVC cement and PVC cleaner.

However, gluing the pieces would be better.

If you slightly turn the PVC cap after it got fitted on the pipe, you would get sure whether it has bonded firmly or not.

Lastly, let the pieces sit for 30 minutes.

Add a Lanyard to 1” Threaded Cap

At this level, you would use the drill along with the drill bit to bore two evenly spaced holes in the 1” PVC threaded cap’s top.

Forming And Installing The Front End Plug

Most of the survival fishing kits employ a PVC end cap for closing the fishing kit’s front end. But such caps could create a problem while casting the fishing line.
Therefore, it would be better to make a customized cap that would fit tightly on the pipe.

You would need to chuck a wood piece and make its diameter same as the 1” PVC pipe’s outside diameter. You would have to shoulder it off till it gets fitted inside the pipe snugly.

After this, you would need to cut a portion of the turning to have a slight cone or rounded end.

Wrap The Handle

Paracord is always a great prepping supply to have in a survival scenario so you could wrap some of it around the handle. This would offer a solid grip to prevent the kit from slipping out from the hand.

Add the Fishing Line

Next, bore a small hole of 1/16” in the 1” PVC pipe for adding the fishing line. You would need to thread one end of the line through the hole and let it come out from the kit’s end.

After this, you would have to tie a small washer on the line’s end employing a stronger knot. The washer would help to fix the line on the kit and prevent it from coming out.

After this, you will have to pull the line steer to draw the washer’s end into the kit and start to wrap the fishing line around the PVC pipe.

Faced with a survival situation, particularly if you run out of food supplies or get separated from them, fishing lets you get access to protein and nutrients you need to stay healthy.

Since some fish are just about in any body of water, finding them presents only a small challenge; catching them, however, is a different story.

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