Theoretical question: If you were sitting in a tree and there was a predator underneath, like a crocodile/jaguar/wolf/wild boar etc., what…?

If someone wanted to harm someone, and you had a thin steel cable, a hook, and a chicken, and you put the chicken on the hook and connected the hook to the steel cable, could you (theoretically) catch a wild animal that way? Because they wouldn't get it, or they usually wouldn't care if there…