if foraging, first thing you should do is

make a digging/throwing stick. Cut a 1.5-2" 'thick stick, about 2 ft long, sharpen and flatten the ends, for digging and stabbing. The best immediate use for this tool is to dig shallow "j" shaped inlets along your current body of water. make them 3-6 ft long, 6" wide and deep. If possible bait them with bugs, fish guts, or at least, rich loam. leave a pile of dirt/sand/pebbles/sod at the "mouth" of your inlet. after a few hours for the minnows/baitfish to enter the inlet, sneak up (don't let your shadow hit the inlet water, and don't vibrate the ground with your steps, and use your 7ft long spear to flip the dirt into he mouth of your inlet and use your hands to catch the minnows. If you get a double handful of minnows, they are worth cooking up for a meal, or you can use them to bait your trotline hooks or "chum' the area of your fish weir or gill nets.

you can "helicopter" sidearm these sticks and likely hit fowl on the water, rabbits, squirrles on the ground, etc. It's very useful for bashing snakes or mud turtles, and for digging up roots and prying bark off of trees. Then you can use your knife to scrape off the edible cambrium layer.

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if foraging, first thing you should do is