.... and the answer is:
Believe it or not G. Dinosaurs probably did it first.
Yep that is a real crow using a hook it made itself to lift a tube out of a hole so it can then turn it on end dump out the food inside.
Sound far fetched? It's not.
Crows have been documented using multiple tools that they make themselves in the wild. One of their favorites is a variety of hooks which the construct out of twigs with V shaped branchings. They cut one side long like a hook shank then cut the other side short and then sharpen it with their bills essentually making it into a crow sized gaff hook the size of a large fish hook.
Though crows do fish, actually with bait, they do so by throwing floating food on the water like bread crumbs then grabbing fish with their bills when they come for the crumbs.
What they use their fishhooks for in the wild is gaffing tasty grubs down inside small holes in hollowed out in trees, but they are not above making hooks to spear chunks of meat in containers in captivity or just to lift things to get to something they want. The crow above was not given any twigs to play with so he improvised and bent his own hook out of wire. Not bad for a bird brained improvised design.
Crows use of tools eclipses all the primates, and every other animal, but one, man. Their use of tools, ability to manufacture and improvise new tools, problem solving, and use of audible language to not only express ideas to one another but even from one generation to the next has shown crows to be one of the most intelligent animals on the planet.
Descendents of Dinosaurs they split off from them during the Jurassic 150 million years ago, they then branched off from other birds about 17 million years ago and have been roughly in their current form for about 10 million years, which means they were probably making tools long before our Homo Habilis ancestors made our first tools roughly 2 million years ago..
Naturally we don't have the first twig fish hooks made by those Homos (not gay) our early ancestors, or anyone that predated them. The only ones we do have were made of things that last, stone or bone made much later. Archeological life expectancy of twigs aside, I imagine the first hooks we made were done with branched twigs sharpened on one side with a long shank on the other. Probably built by some clever fellow who was probably imitating.....
A Crow.
Jim