Bad Bait = Divorce

[Goose]

Ever keep crabs in the frig? Make dam sure you go through them and get them dead ones out. I recently got juiced.... more then one way. 16 years of marriage almost went to hell,, and hell is what I gave the guy who sold me the crabs. I thought she was going to hit me with the frig! I've had one or two dead crabs mixed in thats expected but a 1/4 of a gal.?? I can see why some tacle shops want nothin ta do with'um.

[RIJIMMY]

I'm sure a bad case of the crabs have ruined a few marriages

[numbskull]

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

[Finaddict]

How about a five gallon bucket full of green crabs spilled in the trunk of your parents' car?

Your mom's freezer frozen rock solid with bunker/pogies ...

The crisper in your mom's refridgerator filled with a dozen eels, not known to her on the day of your sister's wedding and reception at your house when she is trying to put food in the fridge but can't ...

a trout saved in a bag that your mom accidentally put back into a cereal box and stored in the cupboard ...

... the list goes on ... granted, your mom can't divorce you, but god bless that poor woman, she experienced a lot of bait faux pas over the years ...

[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.

[jim sylvester]

Originally Posted by Flaptail

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

unagi

[GoFish]

We run an Inn and have had some interesting "discussions" about how the Health Dept. inspectors would feel about live eels in the kitchen fridge. Figure I'll just tell 'em we're doing sushi!

[fishpoopoo]

a few years back i had an electrician come in to render some repairs.

my chest freezer, loaded with various frozen wild fish-stuffs (bait and otherwise), was right next to the fuse box.

electrician didn't tell me he had to unplug the chest freezer to access the fuse box.

which he did.

then he forgot to plug it back in.

given the freezer was hermetically sealed, more or less, i didn't find out about until a few weeks later, when i went to fetch a filet for din-din.

i gagged for a few seconds when i opened the lid.

i fumed for a week after that. you can only imagine the verbal abuse that company got from me. i was so pissed i was gonna hire a lawyer.

company ended up paying me dearly for the mistake.

[labrax]

Don't have a bait gone bad story, but my brother unplugged the freezer in the basement that my parents let me store a butchered deer in. He went to plug in a amp or some recording equipment and never plugged it back in. Lost about 60lbs of meat that was left. Parents couldn't figure out the smell - when I stopped by and my Dad asked me to see if I could figure out the smell - it took me about 30 seconds to realize what it was. Took a long time to get that smell out of the freezer and basement....

[Goose]

Yeah Jim I do have a frig and full size freezer in the garage for bait but it also serves as a drink frig, as it warms up so do the bait oders from fishing gear. Thers someing about bad squid,, one of the worst smells. Also, a cooler full of dead shiners that has turned to white milk.... the best