Growing up and being surrounded by three older brothers was usually a good thing. Every now and then being the "smallest one" had it's disadvantages, but usually it was an advantage. When my brothers took me fishing with them it was one of the best times in my life. We lived along the Delaware River so this was one of our favorite places to go. With the help of a couple of good fishing knives it was amazing some of the things we were able to do. When we went fishing we always had all kinds of pocket knives, fixed bladed knives and even a Swiss Army knife.

As there were four boys in our family we pretty much shared everything. Clothing, school books, fishing equipment and mostly everything else. We also shared one tackle box. One thing we each had was a fishing knife or at least some kind of knife. Pocket knives were carried by each of us because that was always a gift for each of us for birthdays and such. We really didn't have much of a tackle box or for that matter enough rods and reels to go around. We never used lures and mostly used worms for bait. Every now and then dad would make up a batch of corn meal and that was used along with the worms.

Since we usually only had one or two rods and reels, my brothers were very creative in making "homemade rigs." Finding a good bamboo stick along the river then was never a problem because they grew all over the place. Somewhere in that old tackle box was one of those multi-purpose knives that had a blade and a saw attachment. That would be used to saw the bamboo down and to make it the right length. A pretty good length was about 8 feet. Then with a good sharp fixed bladed fishing knife we would trim everything off of the bamboo. At the very tip on the narrow end using a small, but sharp pocket knife we would cut a circle embedded into the bamboo. Within this we would wrap tightly a piece of wire creating an eye hook. From this eye hook you could easily attach your line. You would be amazed how well this would work. There really wasn't a big premium for casting.

Back then (40 years ago) the river was still wide open and assessable and not paved over with shipping docks, warehouses and loading piers. There were a lot of little streams that could be fished into also. Catfish, carp, sunnies and yes even an occasional bass could be caught. But to me it didn't matter because we never kept a single fish. We were only there for the fun of catching them. Even today people still go to the river everyday to go fishing. I can't recall seeing any of them using a bamboo rod. It was, as I said one of the best times of my life.

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