Finding a good place to buy live bait was once harder than finding a good place to use it.
Trying to make a living selling worms, crickets, crayfish, minnows, perch or any other wriggley critter to frugal fishermen would have been tough enough to make riding bulls appear to be a reasonable alternative.
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