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I think it is limb lines. As little as 6' of #32 or so tarred seine line and a hook.

I don't make them that short though, I think mine are all 15 - 20 feet long.

Usually no need for weight, but is good to have some for when needed.

Of course it is easiest from a boat but not necessary. Large creeks, small rivers are my favorite targets. If you are not living in a region with a lot of trees you are not doing life right.

A telescoping jig pole, cane pole is great for catching live bait. Again, very little line and a hook. Cuban YoYos are cool too.

https://invidious.protokolla.fi/watch?v=r8YCCA1z9V8

This one is my favorite knot for a fixed sized loop that will absolutely stay the size you made it - great for making a comfortable handle or for something that won’t slip/tighten like for a dog collar

https://invidious.protokolla.fi/watch?v=Z1R3GW4zhxk&listen=false

the quickest and easiest method I’ve ever seen. Best temporary knot used for many purposes.

https://invidious.protokolla.fi/watch?v=SeyCliQ3mkg

constrictor is better for tightly securing a bundle of sticks, for example, and differs from the clove in one small detail

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40-years-this-russian-family-was-cut-off-from-all-human-contact-unaware-of-world-war-ii-7354256/

Pretty amazing story.

So I was reading a story about a guy who was around in the revolutionary War when basically society was breaking down you had to be nimble you had to have a skill that served your captors well while you were prisoner of war or were captured and being transported etc and then it had to be a skill that was useful if you were not captured or you were released after being captured. And the skills that came to my notice were the ability to melt metals and turn them into other things such as buttons. The ability to make lime and coke and potash. Find out what those are if you don't know. The ability to make beer. If you can make beer then people will always find you useful. If they're trying to choose between 10 prisoners to shoot they're probably not going to shoot the one who knows how to make their beer. These very basic rudimentary skills will make you valuable to the future if it all goes to hell. If you think going out and buying your own land and buying a bunch of bullets is your best defense I would disagree. I think your best defense is to be very useful to the people around you and to be useful to people around you you've got to be able to make and do things that are helpful to whoever is left. People forget that during the revolutionary War it was very difficult to know who who we're going to be the victors in the future. And so you had to have skills that were useful to whoever was in control of you at that moment.

Now you know if there are some more advanced things that are available then doing some programming of fundamental sort of computers like raspberry pies and other things that are going to be adapted to use for all sorts of things would be a skill. And that's basically learning how to flash them and program in python.

Knowing how to purify water and make water cisterns and other things probably are useful too but once you teach them that unlike beer you're not going to have any individual skill that somebody else doesn't know whereas beer making is very much contingent on the person making it and not just the general knowledge of how to do it. So you're going to have people who argue to keep you alive because you make better beer than another guy. Or if you know how to make a water system once you teach everybody how to make them they'll just shoot you and make their own.

Anyways just a really interesting story about someone who was captured during the revolutionary War by Indians and by the British and how he survived among all his captors by being useful when many other people were being killed around him.

Remember if there ever was a survivalist situation that period of time where it's pure independent survival is going to be a short period of time. It might be a couple of months but very quickly there are going to be organized groups of people who have banded together and they're going to start sweeping the areas to find who's around who's got what who's cooperative who's going to be an enemy that they need to take out. So buying all the ammunition in the world and sitting there thinking you're going to be in your bunker for 5 years alone is not going to be the way it really happens for very long. You might survive a nuclear strike that way and you might survive you know all hands on deck total revolution for a few months that way but very quickly in most parts of the country people are going to start self organizing and you're going to be existing among other people.

https://youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA

This isn't beauty like the Roman Coliseum but, it is the basics of how anything is started. It is the simple ingenuity of building blocks that leads to creation, that leads to surplus productivity, that leads to creation for its own sake or creation with superfluous adornment.

If necessity is the mother of invention, leisure may be the mother of art.

Edit: I should have mentioned that closed captioning should be turned on while watching the videos. It is how he narrates. Thanks for the reminder @3Whuurs

https://youtu.be/GDVU5Bj9vl8

This is a couple that is doing what a lot of goats have talked about. They chose Panama. I actually have a few questions about them. What they are doindg seems a little contrived, they build with metal which seems like an odd and expensive choice for novices. The girl wears a lot of yoga outfits, which seems attention getting for their audience. The making your life a Youtube show is questionable at best. They seem to have a lot of money to have no jobs. They also leave at the end to come back to America to have a kid. There might be some jewiness going on to get White people to give up their country. Let me know your thoughts.

Please note that this is all untested on my part and I dont claim to know your circumstance or unexpected variables.

Boiling:
- Boil water vigorously for at least five minutes to kill germs.
Water can be treated by heating rocks in a fire and dropping them into a suitable water filled container or by placing a suitable container filled with water over a fire.
This will give the water a flat taste which can be somewhat offset by pouring water back and forth between two containers. Making tea with the water is also an option. You can also cook meat with the water to get broth to drink.

Treat with chlorine or iodine:
Chemically treated water should be left to sit for half an hour.

- Chlorine tablets can be bought and the pill number used per gallon of water ratio should be on the bottle.

- Determine if your household product containing chlorine is safe for treating water. I hear you should only use regular unscented chlorine bleach products that are suitable for disinfection and sanitization as indicated on the label. The label may say that the active ingredient contains 6 or 8.25% of sodium hypochlorite.
The ratio of household bleach drops per gallon is eight drops per gallon of water and twelve drops per gallon if the water is colored or turbid.

- The iodine drops per gallon ratio is sixteen drops per gallon.

You should have about four liters of water per person each day.

Topographical and aerial maps can be used to help find water.
Canyons, low valleys, and gorge bottoms are the most likely places to find water in mountainous countries.
If melting snow for drinking dig beneath the surface layer and use the whitest and purest snow available.

There is no way I know of to visually determine if a spring or mountain creek ect... is contaminated. The only sure way is to make a chemical analysis of the water.
In many of the more widely traveled outdoor areas such as national parks there will be a sign stating if the water is fit for drinking.
Water that has an unusual odor should not be drunk until tested.