Hi Bill,

When I was growing up, one of my best fishing partners besides my dad was my Baptist preacher. He was an orphan as a child in Memphis and he would tell the story of how he would make extra spending money selling roaches for bream bait. He and a buddy would go to the bakery and buy day old loaves of bread and drop them into storm drains at night. They would come back and grab the loaf of bread and give it a shake over a large washpan. Seems like they were paid something like a 1/2 a cent per roach. I don't think they got rich, but he was able to live off of that plus a paper route.