In 1970 when I was stationed with the USAF in Goose Bay, Labrador, I worked with those ol boy from Memphis. His daddy was a Methodist preacher and he told me they used roaches for crappie where he fished in Tennessee and also down around Holly Springs, Mississippi, Sardis Reservoir, I think he said.

Anyway he said they'd take a coffee can and grease the inside of it with bacon grease. They'd poke a hole in the side of the can and insert a nail with a piece of bacon on it. Then he lay a 1"x4" board as a ramp going up to the rim of the can. They'd set the can in a dark corner in the basement of the parsonage. He said roaches would crawl up the board and fall down in the can to get to the bacon and wouldn't be able to get out due to the greasy inside of the can. He said the next morning the can would be about half full of roaches and they go fishing.

I've never got around to trying this 'cause I don't think I could bring myself to handle one in order to put it on the hook. Anyway me and him had been drinking a tad and it was real late at night or maybe morning so I could be a little foggy on the details but that's what he told me.