Welcome MOAlan

With my track record as a fisherperson I have never considered fishing much for emergency food, altho I know that it can work. I think that location makes a big difference, the more remote the water, the less chance that the little fishies have already tasted a hook.

And some folks seem to need an Ugly Stick, graphite reel, spyderline, and some $10 lure. Then there is the guy I met one time. He had just come back from a week in the back country of the Sierra Nevada Mtns, and had caught his first trout (several of them), on a BARE hook, which was tied onto a four foot length of line, which was tied to a stick...