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    Memory from my youth.


    I grew up near and along the banks of the Mississippi river and I remember when I was young I would fish in the creeks than lead into the river. One day as I rounded the bend of Town creek I heard an old black man talking to himself. He hadn't seen me, so I watched for a minute or 2 to see what the heck he was doing. He had the generator out of an old hand crank telephone and he would crank like crazy while saying “Here fishy, fishy. Calling Mr. fishy” He would wait a few min. then repeat. At the time I was young and didn’t know he was trying to shock up fish as I later learned that was commonly called "Phoning them up".
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    Re: Memory from my youth. (Roddy)

    My brother and I used to do that to get crawdads for bait in a small creek near our house.
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    Re: Memory from my youth. (billius)

    Good story

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    Re: Memory from my youth. (Roddy)

    Luke 22:36

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    Re: Memory from my youth. (Roddy)

    Yep the 9 pole phones work best, from what I was told you know.

    Had a cousin that LOVED doing that. If anyone wanted a catfish fry he would take a day and go load up. Once he got caught by rabbit sheriff and was about to cry and the warden asked him if he was so scared he was going to cry. He replied, hell no I am crying cause I dropped the phone in the sand when I was running from you.
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    Re: Memory from my youth. (Roddy)

    great story same principle as a bio-sonics
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