Giller (fishing)

Giller is a 19th-century term for a person who fishes using a gillnet, as used in the Chesapeake Bay region from the early 19th to the mid-20th centuries.[1] Gillers worked individually or in groups of two or three men using a small boat from which they set and gathered a gillnet. Gillnets first appeared on the Potomac River in 1838 to fish for American shad, and rapidly became the most popular type of fishing gear in the bay region[2] because they allowed the independent fisherman to work with limited resources, following the fish with his boat and net as they moved from place to place in search of food or to spawn.[3] Gillnet fishing in Chesapeake Bay shad fisheries frequently led to conflict among states bordering the bay, with Pennsylvania seiners blaming Maryland gillers for over-harvesting and blocking shad passage upstream into the Susquehanna River, and Maryland gillers blaming Virginia pound-netters for intercepting fish on their northward migration up the bay.[4] Conflicts sometimes erupted into violent confrontations, called "Gillers Wars," during one of which in 1876, a giller in Charles County, Maryland was indicted by the county court for assault with intent to kill the captains of a steamer and a tug.[5] Upon trial he was found not guilty, but his case evidences the extent of the trouble between gillnetters and other bay users that led to involvement by state authorities in regulating fishing and settling disputes involving gillers.[6]

## References

1. ↑ Richard Gerstell: American Shad in the Susquehanna River Basin: A Three-hundred-year History, The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pa., 1998, pp. 73, 116.
2. ↑ L. S. Chowning: Harvesting the Chesapeake: Tools and Traditions, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., pp. 30-37.
3. ↑ Hunter Davidson, Commander, Fishery Force of Maryland: Report on the Oyster Fisheries: Potomac River Shad and Herring Fisheries, and the Water-Fowl of Maryland to His Excellency the Governor and Other Commissioners of the State O.P. Force, January, 1872, pp. 35-41.
4. ↑ R. A. St. Pierre: History of American shad fisheries of Chesapeake Bay, 134th Annual Conference, American Fisheries Society, Aug. 18-22, 2002, Baltimore, MD.
5. ↑ Roberta J. Wearmouth: Abstracts from The Port Tobacco Times and Charles County Advertiser, Volume Four: 1876-1884, Heritage Books, Inc., Westminster, Md., 1999, p. 9.
6. ↑ Hunter Davidson, Commander, Fishery Force of Maryland: Report on the Oyster Fisheries: Potomac River Shad and Herring Fisheries, and the Water-Fowl of Maryland to His Excellency the Governor and Other Commissioners of the State O.P. Force, January, 1872, pp. 35-41.

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Fishing equipment and methods

Fishing tackle

| Fish hook|

* Circle hook
* Gaff
* Hookset
* Sniggle

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Fishing line|

* Braided
* Knots
* Monofilament
* Multifilament
* Power pro
* Swivel

Fishing sinker|

* Arlesey Bomb
* Bombarda
* Downrigger
* Sandsinker

Fishing rod|

* Bamboo fly rod
* Fishing reel
* Fishing rod tapers
* Fly rod building

Fishing bait|

* Bait fish
* Boilies
* Chum
* Clonk
* Groundbait
* Vermicompost
* Worm charming

Plastic bait|

* Deadsticking
* Plastic worm

Fishing lures|

* Artificial fly
* Heddon
* Little Cleo
* Mormyshka
* Original Floater
* Plug
* Sabiki
* Shyster
* Spinnerbait
* Spoon lure
* Spoonplug
* Surface lure
* Swimbait
* Topwater lure
* Zara Spook

Bite indicators|

* Fishing float
* Pellet waggler
* Shortfloating
* Quiver tip

Fishing rig|

* Carolina rig
* Chod rig
* Hair rig
* Texas rig

Apparel|

* Creel
* Diving mask
* Hip boot
* Personal flotation device
* Snorkel
* Waders
* Wetsuit

Other|

* Fish stringer
* Tackle box

Fishing techniques

| Gathering|

* Abalone
* Ama divers
* Clam digging
* Flounder tramping
* Gathering seafood by hand
* Noodling
* Pearl hunting
* Scallop aquaculture
* Trout binning
* Trout tickling

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Spears|

* Bowfishing
* Gigging
* Harpoon
* Hawaiian sling
* Polespear
* Spearfishing
* Speargun
* Trident

Fishing lines|

* Dropline
* Drum lines
* Handline fishing
* Jiggerpole
* Jigging
* Jug fishing
* Longline fishing
* Spin fishing
* Trolling
* Trotline

Fishing nets|

* Cast net
* Chinese fishing net
* Drift net
* Ghost nets
* Gill net
* Glass floats
* Hand net
* Ice jigger
* Lampara net
* Lampuki net
* Lave net
* Lift net
* Seine net
* Surrounding net
* Tangle net
* Trawl net
* Turtle excluder device

Fish traps|

* Almadraba
* Corf
* Crab trap
* Double-Heart of Stacked Stones
* Eel buck
* Fish wheel
* Fishing basket
* Fishing weir
* Lobster trap
* Putcher fishing
* Trabucco

Other|

* Basnig
* Blast fishing
* Cormorant fishing
* Cyanide fishing
* Dredging
* Electrofishing
* Electric pulse fishing
* Fish aggregating device
* Fish toxins
* Fishfinder
* Fishing light attractor
* Flossing
* Ice fishing
* Kite fishing
* Muro-ami
* Otter fishing
* Pa-aling
* Payaos
* Shrimp baiting
* Snagging

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