A Fish Identifying Tool

One blogger has found this old Soviet thing that was very popular among fishing lovers in Soviet times. This rotating disc had many types of fishes written on it and one could use it to identify or find the correct attributes of the fish he is going to catch, like what kind of hooks he had to use, what are well known places were in USSR to get the most of fishing for this fish etc. Russian bloggers discussed this tool greatly and they are sure there was nothing like this in USA, but I am sure there were something like this in USA too.

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12 Responses to “A Fish Identifying Tool”

1. Brian says:

   November 15, 2007 at 8:36 pm

   First

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   • D says:

     November 15, 2007 at 8:46 pm

     Faggot

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     • the number two campaign says:

       November 18, 2007 at 8:16 pm

       D the anti-first crusader.

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2. Brian says:

   November 15, 2007 at 8:37 pm

   FIRST!!!!

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3. Pros says:

   November 15, 2007 at 9:20 pm

   I miss you Igor

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4. John from Kansas says:

   November 16, 2007 at 12:31 am

   Is this one on the disk?
   http://www.boatus.com/news/fish_strike.htm
   In U.S.A. fish catches you.

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   • King George The Decider says:

     November 16, 2007 at 4:02 pm

     The US is the new SU.

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5. Jack Legg says:

   November 16, 2007 at 1:21 am

   Fuck you all - I fucking hate when fucking people use that fucking word fuck, for fuck’s sake.

   Pull my finger.

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6. Fisherman says:

   November 16, 2007 at 6:31 am

   I wonder, does your fish-o-meter also have anything about those horseshoe crabs ?

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7. AJG says:

   November 16, 2007 at 8:41 pm

   We used stuff like this for Copy Protection in a lot of mid-90’s videogames; they’d ask a question and you had to line up the open boxes.
   Then, put in the info. Makes old games really hard to play if you lose the thing!

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8. talking beaver says:

   November 19, 2007 at 3:26 pm

   Last LOL

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9. dsnkjl says:

   May 19, 2009 at 10:30 am

   I haven’t seen one of these devices for fishing in the US, but I have ones for bird-watching.

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