Hobby of Fishing

Hobby of Fishing

Specific Purpose: To show the audience the background and history of fishing along with its benefits.

Central Idea: To discuss the benefits of fishing to people and advantage of taking it up as a hobby.

Introduction

Fishing is a great way to relax and have fun

Great reason for all the family to unite and take part in this activity

It has remained as a way of finding food for a lot of people

For me it is the best way to escape from the work and other related stresses and

enjoy the nature with your friends and family.

This is exactly what today I am going to discuss and explain the history of fishing

and its benefits in general and as a hobby.

(Transition: Let's start with the background and history of fishing)

Body

History:

In order to understand the background of fishing it is very important to understand its origin and history.

The history of fishing dates back to 40,000 years back.

It was a basic means of finding food.

Rods and Spears were used to catch fishes in the beginning (Keep American Fishing, 2012).

The Upper Paleolithic Period

The Upper Paleolithic Period was the start of the fishing.

Scientist find this period as the intimation of fishing with the help of drawings.

The basic purpose of people living in this era was to find food through fishing.

They used to catch fish with the Harpoon and Spear, wait and then spear it when

it comes near (Keep American Fishing, 2012).

(Transition: Now that we know the historical background of fishing it will interesting to go through the process of how fishing tool and fishing evolved over the period of time.)

Evolution of Fishing:

With the advent of new ways of finding food like farming, new ways of fishing were found.

Native American was the first one to come up with new and modernized tools for fishing.

They ...