To make sure I understand (and at the expense of being a little redundant), is this the situation with using artificial lures while pole fishing: there are some artificial lures that have been known to work well with pole fishing with certain species at certain times of the year, but if you travel a lot throughout the nation, its highly unlikely you'd have in a small survival fishing kit the right artificial lure at the right time if all you know how to do is pole fish and don't have a reel. That is why its best, when a newbies are putting together an emergency survival kit for pole fishing, to plan to only use live bait. If all you can do is pole fish, your wasting space in a survival kit by including any artificial lure.

If a newbie had no earthly idea as to what area of the country he or she might be in when he or she may need to use your emergency fishing kit, but if he or she could have one and only one artificial lure for general pole fishing, what would that artificial lure be?

Fine turning of this newbie's generalizations would be appreciated.