[yarddog]

When I was little, we never bought bait, we simply took a staub and used an axe handle to rub it with.

The one thing I could never understand is how different each area is. In one spot one could groan up as many as you would want and the next place would have none.

If by some chance you didn't get any worms, Florida has a surplus of insects. All you have to do is rake away a few leaves and you will find as many as you need. BTW spiders make fine fish bait.

[scholar]

This is interesting. As a kid, I spent my summers in the boonies and never heard of this before.

[MarkWar]

>BTW spiders make fine fish bait.

Even if I were starving to death I'd sooner try to catch fish with my bare hands (like Cary Grant did in Father Goose) than, ugh, touch a spider... [grimaces] [shivers]

Mark W.