I'm not quick enough to catch those fireproof lizards. Need them for a sidequest and to upgrade that set I get in Goron city. (is it even worth upgrading?)
Yea you need the fireproof jacket. Just kill the lizards with arrows from a distance. They will run away 90% of the time you try and creep up on them. Once you get the fireproof outfit you can go to the mines and find a shyt ton of stones and jewels to sell.
Just use the stealth gear and they won't run at all.
Otherwise you can tiptoe up to them and get them. Hell if you tiptoe close enough just stamina run and grab them. Try to run right by them and just push A once it flashes cause it'll come and go quick once the lizard starts to run. Also pickup rocks and immediately spam A during the picking up motion.
Whenever im running through I'm always spamming A. I had 30 something restless crickets. A bunch of butterflies, beetles, lizards, hot footed frogs, and fireflys.
I have to do that because occasionally things will flash "???" And by the time I turned around or stopped it ran / flew away. So now I just run to where I'm going and spam A and I get what I get.