Oh, hell yeah!
And for survival, big game fish is nice, but you have to get out there and get them where they live.
With a small hook, a little thread, and a couple of barbs from a goose or turkey feather- you have bluegill by the buckets at any lake. In moving waters, a streamer that works might take a little testing, but thats easy enough.
Yeah, it would be impractical. Those offshore boats use so much gasoline it would explode heads if the solar/electric crowd had any collective idea & require significant maintenance. People do fly fish some of the bays for trout and reds. I like using scent in the ocean though. Gets them every time.
Once I get proficient using the equipment, making my own flys will be the next hobby chapter for sure.
Thats a good progression, and does get people hooked just as much as the fishing.
Nothing better than whipping up a pattern then going out and absolutely killing it. Iāve had some awesome days on patterns that I just kinda thought up then assembled.
Then theres rod buildingā¦ 
lol, I like a hobby with layers of depth. Hell I might even figure out how to make the hooks themselves at some point. Then to find an iron mine I guess.
Oh, it has layers. I worked for a distributor for a while, and you can go waaaaay down the rabbit hole with it.
There were a few older guys that did some amazing work on their builds, but they didnāt even fish anymore. Theyād order 3 or 4 blanks a month and just build away!
The holy grail at the time, maybe 6 years ago, was these jewelry like line guides made of semi-precious stones for bamboo rods.
This one is most likely to cause damage IMO, but it wonāt be a apocalyptic event per say, but rapid increases in seemingly independent disasters that add up to the world being more or less uninhabitable
For example, increased frequency and jntensity of extreme weather events, destruction of arable land causing mass displacement and or humanitarian crises, new diseases from melting permafrost or intensifying of existing diseases because warmer climates facilitate spread (e.g., disease vectors being able to live in places they previously couldnāt)
Survival Skills? None
Plan for restarting? I wouldnāt necessarily
I donāt understand.
Are you just going to lay down and die?
Am I the only one who made myself overpowering?
The modern baseball was invented before the baseball glove. Basically everyone played bare handed. It was seen as unmanly to wrap your hands or wear any sort of glove. Baseball must have been pretty miserable for the catcher.
Yes, but Iām running the thieves guild.
You couldnāt even steal a typewriter
In college we messed around way too much and would catch fly balls during bp bare handed. I played first and tried it a few times. Itās not bad if itās an ok throw. No way Iām doing it for 90+ or Elly De La Cruz 110.
I might be pretty helpful actually. Carrying a bucket of balls and a spiked bat, chucking 88mph to the dome. All reusable too. Once I run out of saline for my contacts, Iāll be blind like Book of Eli style.
Well Iām not going to publicly admit to a crime on an internet forum. Especially as the leader of a post-apocalyptic thieves guild. But . . . I might have a random key from a 1926 underwood standard. For no reason.
I will burn your guild to ashes and wear your bones as my jewelry.
Donāt threaten me with a good time.
In all seriousness, this is a fun mental exercise
I think it all comes down to what breaks societal cohesion. All of the above would do that (Iām hoping for Zombies). While I really like @tlgains āOmniCorpā idea, that would provide too much stability for the general masses. They would stay asleep as long as they get their bread and circuses. What ever the event is it would have to break the āevery society is 3 days of no food/water/services away from breakdownā rule. Thatās why the C19 wasnāt worse than it was. Everyone still had relatively easy access to resources.
Iām a mechanical engineer, pretty handy, in fairly good shape, have some martial arts training, and can shoot. I also have hobbies in gardening, preserving, animal husbandry.
I think in this situation itās more about who you know and what you know than what you have. You can provision/steal/make most of what you need to survive, but the question is can you do it alone. Skills trump gear. Iāve got a group of friends that have various skills/backgrounds that complement each other well. A couple of engineers, some are former military, some blue collar guys, one whoās really into preserving food and can field strip and butcher just about anything, ect.
only thing iād want to keep is my house assuming we donāt have to go on the road. I have 5 acres out in the county, pretty remote, nice defensible position, enough land to raise livestock and grow food, ect. this would be the location for the teamās compound and fallback point if SHTF really happens
First it would be about the survival of me and mine. After that, it depends on what the new civilization looks like.
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