No offense taken, but fish are very dumb as are many animals. The term dumb is not intended to de-value nature. By dumb, I mean that animals (in varying amounts) have predictable behaviors that they cannot change. That fact can be exploited. I’ve been hobby fishing all my life and believe me, fish are dumb. If not for legal limitations on fishing equipment I could catch more than I can eat as long as there are fish present and so could you.
I'm with GibsonFan: You can carry a helluva lotta hooks and line - enough to outperform a yoyo or speedhook. With a lot of hooks, you can fish many spots at the same time, and each is expendable. What happens if you lose your yoyo or speedhook? Give me the same budget and size / space of either a Yoyo or a speedhook & hooks / line will out catch them. Per hook, those devices may be more efficient, but per $$ and per pound, hooks will prevail. One last point: for the size and price of a yoyo, you could have a gill net, and that will out perform hooks, speed hooks, and yoyos – that’s why they’re illegal in most situations. But for the size, weight, and price, you can’t do better than hooks. A fishing kit in a 35mm film canister can have dozens of hooks, and hundreds of feet of line.
I've caught bluegill with a chewing gum wrapper. I caught many birds as a kid with a milk crate propped up with a stick! Turtles and frogs you can just pick up off the ground. My dog keeps picking fights with skunks (maybe I’m the dumb one there…
. My neighbor raised an abandoned sparrow and now it perches on his shoulder like a sailor’s parrot!
What's my prize?
