10:35 AMKeyser Soze
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Similarly...one of my oldest friends, a guy I've known for 65 years,
spent his summers at a beach cottage in Milford, and his parents had a
garage on the property they used to store "stuff." I kept my fishing rod
there, in a barrel, with a bunch of his family's rods. Well, the cottage
burned down years ago, so the friend replaced the old cottage with a
nice "A-Frame" modern cottage. A year ago, he was poking through the old
garage and found my fishing rod and reel. It was a Penn reel my uncle
gave me, a pretty decent one, probably cost $15 back then, on a medium
weight bottom fishing rod. He cleaned up the reel and says it works
"just fine." I'm going to visit him this summer and I'm sure we'll go
fishing for porgies and snappers the way we used to, back in the day, in
his modern fiberglass 16' dory with its small outboard. Naturally, the
night before, we'll dig up sandworms for bait.
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We used regular old earthworms or ""feesh worms"

Also we used to catch big ol horseflies or tree locusts.

Those things make really good bait. Never tried dough balls though...