primitives discuss fishing on the cheap

[RobJohnson]

In a lifetime of fishing, I've yet to see anyone fishing with a piece of PVC pipe.

I've seen guys grabbing catfish by hand, or even using that stupid Popeil Pocket Fisherman.

I've fished with cane poles, jugs, trotlines, and seines.

But I never thought of using a PVC pipe.

We don't call 'em DUmmies for nothing.

  I have never seen anyone dig for worms either.

I have seen people use the garden hose at night to wet the grass so the dew worms would rise to the surface.

The fish are "bottom feeders" the irony at DU is thick.

[JohnnyReb]

  I have never seen anyone dig for worms either.

I have seen people use the garden hose at night to wet the grass so the dew worms would rise to the surface.

The fish are "bottom feeders" the irony at DU is thick.

Dug up plenty of worms when I was a kid....and turned over many pieces of tin to catch crickets for fishing. No one around here at that time would have ever dreamed of buying worms and crickets at a store....now it's common and raising them is a profitable business.

[GOBUCKS]

I have never seen anyone dig for worms either.

As a kid, I had to have the lawn mowed and the worms dug if I wanted to fish on Saturday.

I laid scrap lumber and many bricks in shady places hoping to reduce the amount of digging. It helped but was never enough.

[franksolich]

Dug up plenty of worms when I was a kid....and turned over many pieces of tin to catch crickets for fishing. No one around here at that time would have ever dreamed of buying worms and crickets at a store....now it's common and raising them is a profitable business.

This reminds me of the one time I tried to mess with the environment, and failed; I was about 11-12 years old at the time.

Up until I was 10, we'd lived in the black-dirt farming area of the Platte River of Nebraska, which always had plenty of worms in the ground.  Then we moved up into the heart of the Sandhills of Nebraska, which with its sandy soil had no worms at all.

Upon learning that worms made the ground more fertile, one time when we were visiting where we used to live, I took a shoe-box and filled it with black dirt and worms, bringing it back to the Sandhills, where I dug a hole in the garden and put the black soil and worms in it.

It didn't work; the worms never got fruitful and multiplied.  In fact, they just died.

[VelvetElvis]

This reminds me of the one time I tried to mess with the environment, and failed; I was about 11-12 years old at the time.

Up until I was 10, we'd lived in the black-dirt farming area of the Platte River of Nebraska, which always had plenty of worms in the ground.  Then we moved up into the heart of the Sandhills of Nebraska, which with its sandy soil had no worms at all.

Upon learning that worms made the ground more fertile, one time when we were visiting where we used to live, I took a shoe-box and filled it with black dirt and worms, bringing it back to the Sandhills, where I dug a hole in the garden and put the black soil and worms in it.

It didn't work; the worms never got fruitful and multiplied.  In fact, they just died.

Frank, you should have put them into the William Rivers Pit.
It would have been like worm  Valhalla!

[DUmpsterDiver]

In a lifetime of fishing, I've yet to see anyone fishing with a piece of PVC pipe.

The only time I saw it done, the fisherman capped both ends of a 3 inch pvc pipe full of powder, taped a rock to it and lit the cannon fuse.   He used a net to pick up the fish after the hole in the water filled back in.

[Gina]

Dug up plenty of worms when I was a kid....and turned over many pieces of tin to catch crickets for fishing. No one around here at that time would have ever dreamed of buying worms and crickets at a store....now it's common and raising them is a profitable business.

Yeh that's what we used for bait back in the day. We found them.

[obumazombie]

The only time I saw it done, the fisherman capped both ends of a 3 inch pvc pipe full of powder, taped a rock to it and lit the cannon fuse.   He used a net to pick up the fish after the hole in the water filled back in.

Reminds me of the story about a young boy who get caught red handed by a game warden while he was dynamite fishing. The boy handed the warden a lit stick of dynamite and asked him if they were going to talk, or get back to fishing.

[JohnnyReb]

Reminds me of the story about a young boy who get caught red handed by a game warden while he was dynamite fishing. The boy handed the warden a lit stick of dynamite and asked him if they were going to talk, or get back to fishing.

Yeah, dynamite fishing....and then there was the "calling up fish", you used a T-model coil and an old hand crank telephone, throw the wires in the water and start cranking....just don't be in the water like my buddy was when you start cranking...

[RobJohnson]

As a kid, I had to have the lawn mowed and the worms dug if I wanted to fish on Saturday.

I laid scrap lumber and many bricks in shady places hoping to reduce the amount of digging. It helped but was never enough.

We would collect them with flashlights at night, bait shops would buy them from us.

[RobJohnson]

Reminds me of the story about a young boy who get caught red handed by a game warden while he was dynamite fishing. The boy handed the warden a lit stick of dynamite and asked him if they were going to talk, or get back to fishing.

The last conversation I had with a game warden was in Illinois. She worked for the DNR and she asked if were catching any thing. I told her "just a buzz.'