I just got back from a holiday in Newfoundland.  We went to L'Anse Aux
Meadows where a 1000 AD Viking site (likely Leif Erikson's) has been
excavated.  The tour guide there told us that when his mother was a girl,
people would push a wheelbarrow up to the stream, pull out trout with their
bare hands and fill the wheelbarrow.  Ken


> >  >Without nets and fishhooks and in dry areas the amounts would have
been
> >  >very low, I think.
>
> throw saponin-bearing plants into the water. wait a bit. collect the fish
> that float to the top.