Squirrel fishing

Squirrel fishing ( German Squirrel Fishing ) is a recreational activity, which is in essence, the question of raising a croissant, for example, a gray squirrel. The Squirrel anglers attached it as a peanut or other bait on a longer cord. Attack the squirrel the cord, it is important to be as careful to lift the cord that holds the Squirrel Nut until it hovers above the ground.

It should be noted that the North American squirrel ( Sciurus carolinensis ) is much less shy than the European red squirrel ( Sciurus vulgaris).

The origins of the hobby are unknown, has developed the Squirrel fishing in the late 1990s at U.S. universities, probably first at Harvard. In 2004 there were also teams at Penn State University ( Squirrel Fishing Rescue Rangers), the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Oregon. Squirrel fishing occurred at ABC News. Reports appeared in numerous college magazines, but also in the Los Angeles Times, Fortune, the Oregonian and the San Francisco Chronicle.

First gained attention the team to Nikolas Gloy and Yasuhiro Endō (Japanese远藤 泰 広), which published a website entitled A new approach to rodent performance evaluation. In Berkeley, where the organized hobby also originated in the late 1990s, the Squirrel Fishing Rescue Rangers in 2002 had over 80 members and were part of the US-wide United States Squirrel Fishers Association.

According to the online edition of the London Times newspaper is a widespread employment in the United States. According to Neatorama to the hobby in 1997 developed in Japan.