The hand fighting commotion idea is good, maybe I’ll try it.
I’m an old steelheader. And Puget Sound salmon fisher.
Got probably 15 poles and reels and bait and tackle up the wazoo!
I figure if SHTF, one of my fishing poles will go for at least 20 gallons of gas.
I have a bit of a personal hatred of gill nets. A river near me (The Puyallup) in late summer is absolutely BOILING with fish!
You stand on the side and watch these long, like 20 yard long wakes of these fish as they swim just subsurface.
Silvers and monster Kings, mostly.
Then, about two days after the fish show, the Indian gill nets go in. You go down to the river and you know what you see?
It looks like glass. Not a fish or evidence that there ever even were any fish in sight. Totally dead.
Absolutely true experiences.
Gill nets can be a lifesaver or they can be used to over fish any waterway. The Indians of today use them the wrong way.