Fish & Fishing

Live animal hunt activities are prohibited at SCA Events. These include, but are not limited to: deer hunting, boar hunts, and game bird shoots.

* The Policy does not address, nor restrict, fishing or falconry.
* The Policy does not address, nor restrict, individuals hunting on site-owner's land with proper permits, licenses, and in accordance with applicable modern laws, regulations and statute.
* The Policy does not address, nor restrict, the teaching of classes on period hunting.

See Additional Policies of the Society Seneschal, Item XIII.

The purpose of this article is to give an introducti on to the history of angling as a sport, along with a brief descriptio n of the tools used, as well as some general notes on the skills and techniques used to create them.

A verse work of agricultur al advice written by a 16th century English farmer. An enlarged edition of his work, Five Hundreth Pointes of Good Husbandrie , was published in 1573.

The Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle was published as part of the second edition of The Boke of St. Albans in 1496. The Treatyse is the most complete early reference work on fly fishing. The text includes instructio ns on how to make a rod, line, hooks, instructio ns for twelve fly patterns and hints about how to catch the common varieties of British fish.

From '' The Booke of haukynge, huntyng and fysshyng, with all necessary properties and medicines that are to be kept,' ' 1561, with an omission of matter restored from the edition of Wynken de Worde, 1496.

This is the year 1008, maybe 1010. A group of people is clearing the way towards what is today known as Isère. Women are accompanied by children; men at arms are riding their horses, while others are leading their pigs, goats and cows in a great fuss. They have put what they need to live in carts. This adventure will lead them to the wooded shores of Paladru Lake. Who are these farmer-knights?

This comprehens ive report represents a landmark in the publicatio n of medieval finds from excavation s in York. It encompasse s very large assemblage s of medieval artefacts of a wide variety of materials, including iron, non-ferrou s metal, stone, jet, amber, fired clay, glass and textile. These were recovered from four major sites in York.

A modern English translation of a section of Lawrens Andrewe's The noble lyfe & nature of man: Of bestes, serpentys, fowles & fisshes y be moste knowen relating to "the natures of the fisshes of the See."

An email list created for the discussion of all things hunting and fishing in medieval times.

Instructio ns for making a medieval line tying device (as described in the Treatise of Fishing with an Angle) in the 2nd Book of St. Albans- 1496.

An ongoing site with articles and links on fishing as it applies to the Middle Ages.

Fish was an important element in the diets of the people of Viking Age Britain.

The consumption of fish was an important part of life in the early medieval period and therefore the catching, preparation, storage and cooking played an equally significant role in everyday life.

The fauna of Anglo-Saxon England was plentiful and varied, and included some animals that have since been made extinct in this country. The vast areas of uninhabited forests, heaths and fells were home to many creatures, in addition to the other wild creatures that inhabited the towns and villages including the domestic animals.

For almost a millennium , a modest wooden ship lay underwater off the coast of Serce Limani, Turkey, filled with evidence of trade and objects of daily life. The ship trafficked in both the Byzantine and Islamic worlds of its time. The ship is known as "the Glass Wreck" because its cargo included three metric tons of glass cullet, including broken Islamic vessels, and eighty pieces of intact glassware. In addition, it held glazed Islamic bowls, red-ware cooking vessels, copper cauldrons and buckets, wine amphoras, weapons, tools, jewelry, fishing gear, remnants of meals, coins, scales and weights, and more. This first volume of the complete site report introduces the discovery, the methods of its excavation , and the conservati on of its artifacts. Chapters cover the details of the ship, its contents, the probable personal possession s of the crew, and the picture of daily shipboard life that can be drawn from the discoverie s.

References to angling in the works of Shakespear e.

A dialogue on the labors of plowmen, shepherds, oxherds, and fishermen.

The carp, by the admission of most authoritat ive fish farmers and piscicultu rists, is one of the most important food fish in the world. however, their origins are shrouded in mythology. Even where serious attempts have been made to trace the origins of this fish in the British Isles, the difficulty in distinguis hing myth from reality has clouded the issue. This essay attempts to put the introducti on of the carp to the British Isles in its correct historic perspectiv e. Changes in the management of estates over the period of c1250-1400 prompted the growth of commercial fish keeping and created a situation into which the introducti on of the carp was appropriat e. The early history of the species in England is traced, and attempts to explain their rise to dominance nationally are expounded.

Links, mailing lists, and books on hunting, dogs & coursing, hawking, and fishing.