The sad part is I have actually done this, not with a squirrel but with a chipmunk. A number of years ago my family and I were camping in the ADKs on one of our normal summer trips. Well my father, brother and I always looked foward to the fishing part of the trip. This year the weather was horrible so one day sitting around the campsite watching the chipmunks chase down the peanuts we threw to them and idea came to our head. We grabbed the nearest pole tied the nut to the end and tossed it out, then slowly brought it back. Then you would see the little guy come running up grab ahold of it and thens when the fight was on lol, I mean they have some toughness when food is involved, usually he would hold on for a few seconds, long enought to get some fun out of it, then he would let go. But you could cast it right back out and he would go for it all over again, now eventually he would fight it enough where it would pop lose and he would run away with the bait. ahhhhhhhhh good times good times