RE: Has anyone ever tried...
Those quillbacks are spastic little, high strung fish.
They swim very fast, and appently are a bit lacking in the vision department. The one time I've see them, in bowman's creek, I almost got rammed by a school of them several times. They just freak out and swim at warp 3 until they have to zip sideways or screech to a frantic stop inches from whatever they almost hit.
Either that, or they are way smarter than I have given them credit for, and they were hoping I would draw and follow them and end up shooting myself in the foot.
Are they bony?