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See The Medieval Sportsman's Compendium of Knowledge: Fishing, The archaeology of medieval fishing tackle, Fishing in Early Medieval Times, or these links.
- A reconstruction of Viking grave goods from a boy’s grave at Balnakeil, c. 850-900, includes an iron fishhook and some thread.
- The Dialogue between Master and Disciple: On laborers, c. 1000
- Fishermen, Reiner Musterbuch (ÖNB 507, fol. 2r), c. 1200-1220
- A fishing monk, a psalter (Stiftsbibliothek Heiligenkreuz 66, fol. 25v), c. 1200-1250
- St. Peter and a fisherman draw up a net containing two salmon, the fisherman carries St Peter’s choice of fish to Bishop Mellitus, The Life of King Edward the Confessor (Ee. 3.59, fol. 18v), c. 1250-60
- A marginal illustration from the Psalter-Hours of Yolande de Soissons (PML M.729, fol. 268r), last quarter of the 13th century
- Main portal of St. Mark's in Venice, 1275
The lower segment of this detail depicts some fishermen.
- Fols. 14v, 127v, and 128v, a psalter (Douce 118), end of the 13th century
- A fisherman, Sententiae (Bibl. Mazarine MS 766, fol. 72v), c. 1300
- An ape goes fishing, the Maastricht Hours (Brit. Lib. Stowe 17, fol. 51v), 1st quarter of the 14th century; he hooks a fish on fol. 52r
- Herr Pfeffel, The Manesse Codex (UBH Cod. Pal. germ. 848, fol. 302r), 1300-1330
- February: Fishermen hauling in their catch, the Queen Mary Psalter (Brit. Lib. Royal 2 B VII, fol. 73r), c. 1310-1320
- Bas-de-page, The Life of St. Denis (BNF Fr. 2092, fol. 4v), 1317
- A woman fishing with a net, Smithfield Decretals (Brit. Lib. Royal 10 E IV, fol. 59r), c. 1340
- Scenes of Country Life, fresco in the Chambre du Cerf, Papal Palace, Avignon, 1343
- The moray is caught (fol. 3v), the sturgeon is caught with the salmon (fol. 60v), the worm is produced by the earth (fol. 127v) Concordantiae caritatis (Stiftsbibliothek Lilienfeld 151, c. 1349-1351
- The pilgrim with a devil who fishes in the sea, The pilgrimage of human life (Bibl. Sainte-Geneviève MS 1130, fol. 75v), c. 1367-1399
- An ape catches a fish, pontifical of Guillaume Durand (Bibl. Sainte-Geneviève MS 143, fol. 1), before 1390
- A fresco of gentlemen and ladies fishing at Roncolo Castle, c. 1390-1395
- Fishing for lampreys from Theatrum Sanitatis
- A man catches a fish in the base-de-page of an antiphonary leaf (PML G.3r), c. 1400
- Man fishes from small boat, a book of hours (Douce 62, fol. 76v), c. 1400
- Fish (fol. 80r) and eels (fol. 82r), Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Latin 9333), 15th century
- Fish in the Tacuinum Sanitatis, (BNF Nouvelle acquisition latine 1673, fol. 78), 15th century
- Fishermen in the Mendel Hausbuch:
Heintz Vyscher (c. 1425),
Ffritz Richtel (c. 1425),
Hans Pydendorffer (1552),
Matthes Rotgeb (1609)
- A man catching fish in traps, The Hours of Catherine of Cleves (PML M.945, fol. 85r), c. 1440; see also PML M.917, fol. 233
- Detail from a fresco of St. Christopher at St. Ulrich in Gröden, c. 1450-1475
- Fishing, Livre des prouffitz champestres et ruraulx (BNF Arsenal 5064, fol. 265), third quarter of the 15th century
- Execution of Manlius Capitolinus, Facta et dicta memorabilia (BNF Fr. 289, fol. 294), second half of the 15th century
- Carrying fish, Konzil von Konstanz (ÖNB 3044, fol. 123v), c. 1465-1475
- Fishing (Pisces), The Hours of Infante Don Alfonso of Castile (PML M.854, fol. 3v), c. 1465-1480
- Fishing and hunting, Livre des Prouffis Champestres et Ruraux (PML M.232, fol. 265r), c. 1470
- Pond House, the Wolfegg Housebook, 1475-1485
- Detail from Leopold the Saint in the Family Tree of Bamberg by Hans Part, c. 1489-1492
- St. Bernard heals the lame and the blind, Jörg Breu the Elder, c. 1495-1505
- Fishing in a stream, a book of hours (PML M.197, fol. 9v), c. 1500
- A treatyse of fysshynge wyth an Angle by Dame Juliana Berners (the Wynken de Worde edition, 1496
- Detail from Melancolia in the Garden of Life by Matthias Gerung, 1558
- A fisherman
- The Miraculous Draught of Fishes by Joachim Beuckelaer, 1563
- The fisherman, Eigentliche Beschreibung aller Stände auf Erden, 1568
- The Arte of Angling, 1577
- A Booke of Fishing with a hooke and line by Leonard Mascall, 1590
- Fishing by Annibale Carracci, before 1595
- The Four Elements: Water by Maarten de Vos
- The Countrye Farm (sections on the making of fishponds), 1616
- Barker’s Delight, or the Art of Angling by Thomas Barker, 1659
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