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This is my grandfathers old cricket container. Knowing the kind of guy he was and how much he liked his beer I'd bet if it could talk it would have some great stories. Being a single guy and not having to answer to anyone I keep it on an endtable in my living room with a few other old keep sakes.
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Very cool!!
I remember when i was a little kid the men would make those.....guess they did not have them in stores then and if they did...nobody could afford them
Yes Sir, It looks to be homemade, with some plywood, some corner round and a soup can. No wonder it lasted so long
Was that like 1920?, They probably didn't even have crickets way back thenQuote:
Originally Posted by "G"
go play with your monkey Wilbur lol
That is cool!
it is homemade, looks like an old oil can cut in half in the middle.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilbur
Nah, its a soup can it has the dimples around it, I would say CampbellsQuote:
Originally Posted by Big Smooth
Make them big like that so later on you put you cataba worms in too . Course he probably caught his own crickets .
That is such a neat item to have. Very cool!
That is really cool, thnx for sharing the pic, think I will make one out of some of all that scrap lumber down in the shop sometime.
I remember my grandpa having one similar to that when I was a kid. He used it mostly for catalpa worms. Brings back some good memories. :thumbup:
That is pretty cool.
I remember my uncle having one like that when I was a kid. When he died we got it, didn't last long with us kids.
That's a great keepsake. Love that vintage homemaker fishing stuff. It would look killer in ANY man cave.
That's one antique with memories attached. Neat!
way back then we made ours and I trapped roaches in the stores around for bait. that was before crickets. some bait shops sold roaches back then.
I'm afraid I wouldn't fish if I had to touch a roach. Lol I'd rather use spiders.Quote:
Originally Posted by olduckhunter
scott, I had an uncle that lived in Paragould, ark that told me about a man from there that when he would get on a bed of bream he would take a roach and bait his hook and get another out of the box and stick in the corner of his mouth to be ready to re-bait fast. not me. but we did fish with lots of roaches way back then before crickets. I've probably got several of the boxes like the one smooth has that we built and may have one of the domed roach traps I used to trap them.
Too big for a soup can. On the other hand, I don't know what size soup cans were back then.
More than likely a small coffee can.
It looks to be about the size of a Campbell's Chunky soup can, but shorter. There were a few more home canners that used cans instead of jars back then. A rim wouldn't have been a problem to put on after the can went through the hole with a sealer.
My uncle would go the the dock close to downtown Memphis at night. Lay out a few slices of bread on the edge of the dock, pour a little beer on the bread. Come back a little later, slide the bucket along the side of the dock and wipe the bread with roaches into the bucket, dig the bread out to sit it up and do it again. That was back in the day when the train ran to Lakeview Resort.
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Originally Posted by Rees Guide
Rees, I think you hit the nail on the head!
Had one if those as a kid and fished with roaches, didn't think anything of it.