|
This thread reminds me of a funny story. My dad was always reading early American history, and he read that the settlers used seagulls as lobster bait.Well of course we couldn't kill seagulls, so he takes me down to the market, and we pick out a live chicken and he tells the guy to kill it but don't clean it.The guy breaks it's neck and we put it in the pot feathers and all.Dad is all pumped up thinking that we are on to something big here. Well, I'll tell you, you have never seen anything so disgusting in your life.That pot never caught a lobster, or even a crab - just a bunch of underwater maggot-like bugs.And Dad was stubborn too, he just said give it time it's gotta work.So I pulled it every day, and nearly hurled from the stench - still nothing. And the thought of pulling that putrid, bloated bird out of the trap didn't sit too well. I think I ended up cutting the pot off one day after a storm and telling Dad it got blown away - but it's one of those childhood memories you never forget.
So I guess the old ways aren't always the best, no matter what Dad says. It really pissed him off when I came up with putting a sardine can in there with a few holes punched in it.That was the best bait. The lobsters would bend it all up with their claws.Pretty funny.
|