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Trotline Fishing: Build and Set Lines That Fish for You

Learn trotline fishing step by step: build and set a trotline, make jug lines and limb lines, pick baits that stay on, and follow...

Fishing for Survival Food

Learn why passive fishing methods like set lines, trotlines, nets, and traps make fishing one of the most efficient wild-food sources for self-reliant households.

How to Make a Fish Trap: Bottle, Basket and Weir

Learn how to make a fish trap from a plastic bottle, green saplings or creek stones. Build steps, bait, placement and the legal limits...

How to Clean a Fish: Scale, Gut, Fillet and Use It All

Learn how to clean a fish step by step: bleed and cool the catch, scale and gut, fillet, then eat the head, cheeks, roe,...

How to Make a Fishing Pole and Hooks in the Wild

How to make a fishing pole, hooks and line from what you have in the wild, rig them to catch fish, and pack a...

Safe Web Browsing: Identifying Unsafe Sites

With the increasing number of cyber threats and malicious websites, it has become essential to have tools that help us identify when a website...

How to Write a SITREP for Your Family and Household

Learn how to write a SITREP in six lines so your household shares one clear picture during a storm, outage or evacuation, and keeps...

New Deal and the Great Depression: How America Recovered

One of the greatest economic downturns of the industrialized world, The Great Depression was a bleak period. Like something from a Dickens novel, it...

Secure Messaging Apps: Private Picks for Preppers

Compare secure messaging apps like Signal, Threema, and Wickr, learn which features protect your privacy, and use them safely to keep family plans private.