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I"d take a modified Cold steel shovel, so I could use it as a hoe or an adze, and have a long handle, too, after making both handles. The Phillips screwdriver in the Crunch would let me remove and replace handles in the shovel. I'd want to take a BIG saw blade as part of the Crunch, preferably a Silky blade, to be held in the vice-grip. I'd take a ration that consisted of 2 lbs of gorp and 3 lbs of pemmican. I'd take a wool and oilcloth sleeping bag, so that I could dry it out with hot rocks. I'd take the hooks and line with 1 regular hook and the rest being treblehooks of varying sizes. I'd take a paracord gillnet, if possible. If not I'd take a paracord hammock and a nylon gillnet. The gillnet, if made of pararcord, has 3x the cordage that the hammock does, but you'd be a day or so unraveling enough of it to make the USABLE gillnet (out of the 7 individual strands inside of the sheathing.

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once you have ashes, fire-rolling becomes much easier and more reliable, and the ashes help any tinder flame up, once you've got an ember. They let you take your fishhooks in an Altoid tin, so you can char some punkwood with your first fire. Once you have char, you can easily get a fire with any carbon steel blade and any sharp edged hunk of chert or quartz. 

Once you've been there 2 weeks and you're averaging catching over 10 lbs of fish/game every day, you can take half a day to make a big McElroy pump drill, with its removable spindle head and a piece of hearth that is dry punk board, which you dovetail into a flattened greenwood holding piece. REmove the head, and the firehole and keep them in a tape and tarp "drybag". If things are damp, you can force dry them with hot stones in that bag.

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the fish aren't going anywhere, but the fowl are going to migrate. So jump all over harvesting 50 of them in your first month. You need their fat, so render it down and store it in a tarp/tape container. You'll need it to help you choke down all the fish and cambium that you'll have to eat. 

ASAP, build a lot of small brush piles all around your camp and bait them. Rabbits will bait to cambium, or even just freshly cut twigs and stems. possoms,coons, hogs, the weasel family, coyotes, bobcats, will all bait to fish and animal guts. A week or so after the animals are taking the bait, make the sapling-frames of the "box-traps" (later to be made of netting), with no ends on them and bait them. Let the critters learn that your scent means an easy meal. All you will do with deadfalls and cordage snares is teach animals to fear your scent. After the ice (and winter storms) force you to pull your fish traps, re-purpose the netting to catch mammals and birds. That's when you add the x'd stick ends of the traps and the triggers. Keep baiting, of course. 

Animals will take a long time to chew their way out of such traps. Keep the brush piles within 50 meters of your camp, and you'll hear the commotion caused by a catch. The traps serve to protect the critters from predators. and keep them alive, if you're not yet ready to eat them. The fish traps do the same thing, of course.

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