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Pork Fishing (Deutsch - Schweinfischen)

Pork fishing is the little known art of catching pigs from both rivers/lakes and the sea. Pork fishing is remarkably unpopular anywhere in the world due to the near impossibility of catching a pig in any body of water. However, pork fishing pioneer John Connolly (circa 1949-2007) claimed that the waters off Clare Island on the Atlantic coast of Ireland were the finest pork fishing waters "I have ever fished". Connolly further claimed that the twilight hour before dusk was the best time to catch pigs.

Methods of Pork Fishing

There are three principal methods of catching pigs while fishing:

1. Line pork fishing This is the classic method of catching pigs and considered by officianados as the only true method of fishing for pigs. Connolly once claimed that he would rather slice off his right hand than pork fish by any other method. It is a remarkably simple method. Any fishing line will do with a simple hook and no lure. It is recommended to have a reasonably strong tensile strength on the line given the size of modern domestic pig. However, another school of thought would suggest that the line, lure and any other paraphernalia are largely moot given that there are no recorded instances of pigs ever living in water and the chances of actually catching a pig beyond remote.

2. Net pork fishing This involves the use of a net and a trawler to trawl the seas for pigs. Giving the sheer lunacy of undertaking such an endeavour, no-one has ever invested the significant resources into such a painfully pointless task.

3. Farmed pork fishing A pork fishing version of your typical farmed fish. Considered an abomination by pioneer of pork fishing John Connolly and rumoured to produce pork that is chewy and stringy (of far lower quality than proper or line caught pork).