11,500 Year Old Fish Hooks Found in Women's Grave.

[jdmidwest]

https://www.livescience.com/61206-ancient-fishhooks-found-in-burial.html

Amazing, fish hooks found in an ancient grave of a woman in Indonesia.  This is the earliest evidence of fish hooks in a grave burial found to date.  They go on and on about it and they try to connect it to a woman of stature and its importance to history.

I have a different theory.  We may have found the first sport fisherman, her husband.  He may have been in such a hurry to get her in the ground and buried so he could get back to fishing and dropped a few hooks doing it.   Maybe she was royalty and worth alot.  He inherited her wealth and had so much fishing gear he made her a necklace just to show her how much he loved her out of it......

[fishinwrench]

What does one fish for in Indonesia?  

[Flysmallie]

7 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

What does one fish for in Indonesia?  

Spotted bass

[BilletHead]

             Mrs. BilletHead has been reading some of the posts on here. She says she wants to be buried with her fillet knife and a gig. She heard at the swap meet there is an unlimited supply of smallmouth with out yellow grubs in their meat. .  

    

1 minute ago, Flysmallie said:

Spotted bass

  Carp,

BilletHead

[Chief Grey Bear]

21 minutes ago, Flysmallie said:

Spotted bass

They're freaking everywhere!

[jdmidwest]

I have never had an issue with the Kentuckies.  We had a great day on the TN River out of Saltillo about a month ago catching them.  They seem to get along with the other bass in that system.

[tjm]

Quick peek at the net for Indonesia fishing, doesn't mention spotted bass? It did say game-fish so that would explain no carp on the list.

Tuna Dog Tooth
Trevally
Amberjack
Grouper
Marbrn
Swordfish
Sailfish
Yellowfin Tuna
Barracuda
Wahoo
Mahi-Mahi … etc.

[Chief Grey Bear]

 Apparently they always do except for one certain renegade group of them in one certain watershed.

[fishinwrench]

I'd say that the old dead gal from Indo was quite likely a very popular mermaid.  

https://io9.gizmodo.com/5802301/how-to-have-sex-with-a-mermaid

[Ham]

3 hours ago, jdmidwest said:

https://www.livescience.com/61206-ancient-fishhooks-found-in-burial.html

Amazing, fish hooks found in an ancient grave of a woman in Indonesia.  This is the earliest evidence of fish hooks in a grave burial found to date.  They go on and on about it and they try to connect it to a woman of stature and its importance to history.

I have a different theory.  We may have found the first sport fisherman, her husband.  He may have been in such a hurry to get her in the ground and buried so he could get back to fishing and dropped a few hooks doing it.   Maybe she was royalty and worth alot.  He inherited her wealth and had so much fishing gear he made her a necklace just to show her how much he loved her out of it......

Hoarding fishing tackle goes back over 10,000 years. I'm just carrying on an ancient tradition.