Squirrel fishing

Squirrel fishing is the practice of enticing squirrels and attempting to lift them into the air using a nut (such as a peanut) tied to a string or fishing line and optionally some kind of fishing pole.^[1]

A squirrel being successfully lifted

There has been some debate over where modern squirrel fishing originated. Squirrel fishing occurred at least as early as 1889 in the United States.^[2] The practice was popularized either by Nikolas Gloy and Yasuhiro Endo at the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University^[3] or by the Berkeley Squirrel Fisher's Club (BSF), an official student group at the University of California, Berkeley that has been featured in the campus newspaper.^[4] As of 2009^[update], Ohio State University also had a squirrel fishing club.^[5] Michigan State University joined in 2015.^[6]