Jase Robertson
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So somebody told him, well, you've got to have fresh bait, Phil.
Well, he's got all his hoop nets because we're commercial fish in the river.
So that's when this thing took a turn.
So then we would go run the nets, take all the good fish, go sell them at the fish market, take all the crawfish and chop them up.
put them into crawfish traps.
We got 500 traps.
So we start running these nets, taking the good fish, selling them at the market, taking the bad fish.
Not bad as in worthless.
We were throwing those back, but now we're using those for bait.
But just think about this.
If every day you wake up,
and you're chopping up fish, using it for bait, then you're running 500 traps.
Well, all of a sudden, we started catching 10 to 20 times what we were catching.
So now we're selling them.
But your hands, even though you had gloves on, crawfish will pinch you.
Then you have the bait.
Well, you have fins.
Fins are punching you.
Well, people started bringing in stuff that they ran over.
Dead squirrels.