I’m grateful to blog reader Judy for her comment the other day that recalled me to a series I’ve been neglecting lately, on our homestead reference library.
January is hardly the time to be thinking about fishing. It threatens to lead to restlessness and dissatisfaction, although last winter I found the cure for that. But, just as Michelle does her best garden planning in the middle of winter, it behooves me to be thinking, at least on some level, of one of my most vital activities on the homestead.
As you can imagine, such a pivotal activity requires a certain amount of study. Our homestead reference library has many books on fish and fishing. One of the best, if not the most valuable title on our shelf, is Hilary Stewart’s Indian Fishing: Early Methods on the Northwest Coast (paid link) (check your local independent bookstore).
Our copy of Stewart’s Indian Fishing (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).