On Dec 10, 4:58�pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in messagenews:7blrl3tt9ndup8vtdsbn4hi9mvkp7mlhkr@4ax .com...

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:44:49 -0400, "Don White"
wrote:

We always had sardines at home as a kid.

Well you are Canadian.

I remember buying 3 very large sardines in a wooden box with a jute string
handle. �The sardines were iced and covered with sawdust. �Was $1.00. �Used
as bait at the Berkeley Pier.

Takes one stupid fish to bite on frozen bait presented in a box of
sawdust. :-)