Fishing in Wood Lake and Surrounding Area

FISHERS OF WOOD LAKE

Profession: The Fishers of Wood Lake and Surroundings, Especially South by Bluff's Lake...
(See Bluff's End on the Shore of Wood Lake for more detail of population and activity at the Lake’s Southern End.)

Southern Wood Lake...
The Lake gives the people of Bluff’s End their primary livelihood. The estuaries at the outlet of the Great River Tegg provide more than enough food for the villagers, and a good deal to trade with outsiders. (These outsiders are generally Froddks, Grimlocks, and Gnomes.) The Lake also provides income by ship-building and -making, along with so many other livelihoods that relate to fishing and sailing.
Village Fishers use strong, stable catamarans in the estuary, usually with trawler nets, fishing for Big Browns mostly, which get quite large here. There are also certain places designated for Fixed Nets, where both Big Browns and Greengills can be caught. Catamarans also sail to the eastern end of the lake using bait and tackle and sometimes trawling to catch larger Greengills, or Rainbow Trout (the true prize).
Camps are made as designated (or other) sites along the Eastern Shore on these trips, when an overnight is called for. Most catamarans have live-wells in which to keep their catches.
In the case of fishing closer to shore, especially along the border of the Darvenmoor, with dip nets usually, well-lashed rafts are employed, with sails or poles.
Blue, and blue designs, are the favored decoration of the sails. Bluffs Enders are beholden to no crown or ruler of any kind, and their blue designs celebrate it. Each sailor has an individual design, some with fish, some with lines, some with more geometric patterning.
So fishing is primary income in Bluff’s End, but there are more goods and services to be had at the bottom of the Bluff by the water. Traders in lumber, stone, and metals pass through Bluff’s End, along with other vendors. Villagers from “up on the hill” come down and make use of a number of services. So that the village definitely has a flavor, if an insular one.



WOOD LAKE, FISHING IN THE NORTH
There is less fishing here, and certainly nothing organized. The permanent residents of Current certainly fish for their food, but there are only a few who really put their catches on the market. In the area before the outlet to the Anwar River, there are places where the fish (especially rainbows) get very, very big. Some hotshots set out to catch them with bait and tackle.
The biggest travesty here is the sport hunting of not only fish, but also nixies; the latter have organized all out war with boats (usually small catamarans) that come out to this area. Too many nixies have died utterly meaningless deaths at the hands of ruffians coming out from Current.