Bad Bait = Divorce

[Flaptail]

Originally Posted by numbskull

Eelskins in a chinese food box will piss 'em off too.

Especially if they put it the microwave for 2 minutes without looking in the box!

[RickBomba]

Long story about Naked #^&#^&#^&#^&y (Dadbomba) from when i was a kid.
We went out to a local stream (in back of Rappin Mikeys new house), and used a long net to catch helgramites...anyhow, #^&#^&#^&#^&y brings then home and puts them in the kitchen sink.
We go to bed, Mom's working second shift, comes home and thinks the helgramites are coming up the pipes.
Shoulda heard her scream!!! Still remember it and it was 1975 when I was 4.
Later,
Rick

[likwid]

A cod head (with rack still attached) used to be a common sight staring out of the freezer when I was a kid.

Sometimes you don't have the time to make fish stock right away.

[fishpoopoo]

i dunno, have you ever had an eel wiggle out of a pot and crawl under a seat in the wife's car?

in 90 degree August heat?

[likwid]

Originally Posted by Bassturbed

i dunno, have you ever had an eel wiggle out of a pot and crawl under a seat in the wife's car?

in 90 degree August heat?

ewwwwwwwww
smoked eel anyone?

[Mr. Sandman]

Originally Posted by Bassturbed

i dunno, have you ever had an eel wiggle out of a pot and crawl under a seat in the wife's car?

in 90 degree August heat?

yes and it is not a pretty picture. Also had squid juice leak out on the car's carpet....Good thing that was a leased vehicle!


Goose...break down and pick up a seperate refridge and/or freezer just for bait and put it in the garage or shed. I had to a few years ago when the wife put her foot down and said..." there will be no bait in the food freezer from now on!" after the freezer went into some self defrost mode and some of the bunker chum I had in there was wafting unpleast oders on her good meats. Since then all is well, I picked up a big chest freezer and have lots of space for just about anything. They are pretty cheap.

[Swimmer]

Standing on the wharf in Edgartown and listening to my wife tell me how bad the van stunk, because of the squid juice that had been soaking in the plywood for a couple of weeks when an old guy I had been jigging up butterfish with looks at my wife and says, Miss that smell gives the vehicle character". First time I ever chatted with Ray Metcalf. I always appreciated that remark. Bev was right though it did stink, but in a good way.

[LeCounts1099]

My poor Mom had to put up with all kinds of bait- storage fall- out when I was a teenager (now I'm Single & answer to no- one... and have two Refrigerators!)

Almost nightly in- season, she had to put up with the half- dozen or more large fresh bloody Pogies I snagged that day, for tommorrow Dawn's chunkin'... Smell was minimal though as they were fresh, & I learned to double- pack & cover them with black plastic bags so she didn't see eyes upon opening HER 'fridge. THAT I got away with thankfully!...

Her last straw was my Green Crabs in the garage! (I was on a great shore Blackfish/ 'Tog Surf bite those early Springs back in the '80s when I was maybe 16- 17 or so. A 13.5 the best of 'em... Yes, I have a pic-- & news clipping!)

I had placed a half- bushel of Greens in my cool garage on a hot June day in the cardboard container they had come in. Made sure to weight down the box- top 'till satisfied they couldn't escape. Well, it rained, so they were there a couple of days. No problem I thought-- they'll live... I'm sure you guessed it: the dampness eroded the bottom of the cardboard box though thick... & the crabs punched holes through & escaped all over the Garage!

Of course I found & picked up all I could... But I was finding crab carcasses for years! Need I tell you what that Garage smelled like, esp. summers? Luckily I went away to College for four years right after my "crime!"

[jim sylvester]

Originally Posted by Flaptail

Especially if they put it the microwave for 2 minutes without looking in the box!

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