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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
There has been some debate over where modern squirrel fishing originated. Squirrel fishing occurred at least as early as 1889 in the United States.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The practice was popularized either by Nikolas Gloy and Yasuhiro Endo at the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Template:As of, Ohio State University also had a squirrel fishing club.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref> Michigan State University joined in 2015.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>