Looking for a fishing pole
jakku
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Hello :)
I am looking for a fishing pole, I can not find a single one in the store.
Looking for a fishing pole that would fit in a medieval setting.
Hello :)
I am looking for a fishing pole, I can not find a single one in the store.
Looking for a fishing pole that would fit in a medieval setting.
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A Medieval fishing rod would just be a longish sapling with line attached to the top. There wouldnt have been a reel as they weren't used, in the UK at least, unil the middle of the 17th century.
http://www.fishingmuseum.org.uk/reels_overview.html
Don't forget the bent pin to hold the bait.
Strangely enough Pam, hooks are older than you think some having been found from the Neolithic
http://www.fishingmuseum.org.uk/hooks_overview.html
Together with big brothers who drop worms down little sister's neck's when digging for bait?
Thanks Fishtales :) interesting link, thanks
I will try to model a sapling and use the posable water hose from SickleYield as line by scaling it longer, should work I guess :)
For that matter, it wouldn't be that hard to model a whittled down pole and rig a bit of string, as long as you don't need it to be all that bendy.
There is a simple bamboo fishing pole by France on ShareCg:
http://www.sharecg.com/v/53806/gallery/21/DAZ-Studio/Bamboo-Fishing-Pole
It looks like a single bamboo stalk with a line attechaed at the end, Would this work for you?
That looks more like a brush handle than a fishing rod
Maybe so; but the OP seems like he/she is looking for something pretty primative. Applying an appropriate bark or wood shader to the pole might give them them something they could use for a medieval pole
"a medieval setting"
It is rather more likely, I believe, that fishing in those times would have been a serious business, and probably would have involved using weirs, traps, nets, spears and handlines, rather than fishing poles.
Maybe so but they wouldn't take any length of wood to make it, they would pick a supple sapling that tapered from the base, not a pole with a constant diameter.
http://www.quora.com/What-did-fishing-rods-look-like-during-the-middle-ages
They even had flexible rods in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD
http://www.start-fishing.co.uk/Page4 History.htm
Hehe
Thanks everyone :)
The bamboo fishing pole is definitely something I could use as well for another render, so thanks for showing me that Charlie Judge.