| When I was a kid, my father would choose
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| | covered the box with window screen wire
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| a weekend for a catfishing trip to Lake
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| | on the bottom and sides in order to keep
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| Texoma, giving me ample notice to catch
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| | the crickets from escaping. Then I made
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| lots of trotline bait. The pond I liked
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| | a tight-fitting frame covered with the
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| to get bait from was full of black perch
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| | same screen wire for a lid and hinged it
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| and bluegill from 3 inches to 3/4 pound
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| | to the box.The box was half-filed with
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| each. They liked crickets. Lots of
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| | torn up lettuce leaves from the grocer
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| crickets.It took me an hour after dark to
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| | and placed outside against the wall of
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| chase and catch a dozen crickets to fish
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| | the garage with the lid propped open.
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| with the following morning. Then the
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| | This was the trap.The lure was a simple
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| perch ate them so fast that I ran out
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| | invention... an extension cord with a
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| within a half-hour or so. I had to
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| | garage trouble light plugged in. The key
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| figure out a better way to supply myself
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| | was the red lightbulb. The red light was
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| with enough crickets to catch enough
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| | positioned so that the light fell on the
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| perch to run a 100 hook trotline at least
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| | lettuce bed in the box.The crickets
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| four times. That takes a lot of perch
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| | swarmed the red light at night, falling
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| and even more crickets.I noticed that the
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| | into the lettuce where they remained
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| crickets I needed were on the ground,
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| | chomping merrily away all night. All I
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| dead, at the gas station on the corner
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| | had to do was quietly remove the light
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| every morning. They were piled up under
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| | and close the box lid at daybreak and I
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| the light that stayed on all night.
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| | had thousands of crickets free of
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| Nowhere else were they so numerous.That
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| | charge.My live tank at the pond was
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| gave me a brainstorm. I went down to the
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| | filled on schedule and many church fish
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| grocer's and begged an orange crate from
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| | fries were supplied with fine catfish
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| him. Don't laugh... oranges came in
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| | from that Lake Texoma trotline.Submitted
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| wooden crates in the mid 1950's. The
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| | by Albert McBee. Copyright December
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| slats failed to cover the entire box
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| | 2006.
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| bottom, but it allowed air flow. I
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