Thread: cockroach's

Too Damn Hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Looks like a flour sieve with a metal pipe fastened to it. Simple enough to make. Maybe that's an oil pan mesh filter from an old Pontiac. I've got a minnow trap, so I might put some food scraps in it and see if that works. I'd plug up one of the holes and put something bristlely (is that a word?) at the entrance on the other end to keep the roaches trapped. They are smarter than they look, you know.

If I have trouble getting a roach to stay on a hook, I can make doughballs with it. Grind up a cup of roaches in a very old blender with no more water than necessary to make it a cold liquid. Then add this raw liquid nastiness to a 50/50 mix of self-rising flour and cornmeal. Add just enough water to make it bind good into a stiff dough. Make acorn sized balls (1/4") out of the dough because they will swell up to twice the raw dough size when cooking. Drop the dough balls into hard boiling clean water and let them swell as they cook, flip over on their own like bagels, cook some more. Then drain the roach dough balls on paper towels and let them cool. It's okay if some paper towel sticks to the balls. Kind of helps them stay together. Chill and keep chilled till I am ready to use them. That's my recipe for making a very basic catfish doughball con carne. Some people sprinkle a little salt on their doughballs, but I don't. Wouldn't salt have a tenderizer effect on the doughball and cause it to disintergrate faster?
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Roaches have been found to carry polio, hepatitis, salmonella, streptococcus, shigella, hookworms, tapeworms, dysentery-causing amoebi, leprosy and bubonic plague. Even a squeaky-clean cockroach can make you sick (or kill you) if you happen to be allergic: Roaches are the prime culprits in the inner-city asthma epidemic that takes the lives of hundreds of children each year.

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Roaches have been found to carry polio, hepatitis, salmonella, streptococcus, shigella, hookworms, tapeworms, dysentery-causing amoebi, leprosy and bubonic plague. Even a squeaky-clean cockroach can make you sick (or kill you) if you happen to be allergic: Roaches are the prime culprits in the inner-city asthma epidemic that takes the lives of hundreds of children each year."

Although I wouldn't touch the filthy things today, we fished with them when I was growing up. Bream would go crazy attacking them. We never used crickets unless we ran out of roaches. We also had a bait shop in our garage that funded my college education. What was really interesting was that we sold crickets, worms and black roaches. The crickets brought $1 per hundred and the roaches sold for $1.50 per hundred. We couldn't catch enough roaches to satisfy the demand. I can't count the times we set out our roach traps at night and picked them up before dawn in an old alley beside a football stadium. We would sometimes catch 2000 - 3000 and sell all of them within a few days. I'm 58 years old and really healthy (as far as I know) so maybe those black roaches that hung around those garbage cans were healthier than the cockroaches.

Hint for anyone catching their own these days: put a slice of white bread in the bottom of the roach traps (ours looked exactly like the ones someone posted on this board) and soak the bread with beer. The beer soaked bread would catch twice as many or more than the traps with the non-alcoholic bread.

Dan

As a kid, I'd go with my dad and uncle to the river at night. Where the barges tie up to the docks. Lay several slices of bread close to the edge, pour a little beer on each and wait. 1 or 2 roaches would visite then leave. After awhile you couldn't see the slices for them. Rack bread and all into a bucket and return the slice to the dock. It would average an hour for about 200 roaches to be in the bucket. Cover the bucket, some are able to fly.
Dad had a block of wood with a short broom handle attacked to it, about 10 inches long. place it in the bucket, the roaches will climb the stick for higher ground. Pick off the one you want.
We fished Horn Lake, Lakeview as some call it. Mostly for bream. We'd carry worms, crickets and roaches. Roaches always produced the largest bream and a few crappie.

Go to any saw mill and get as many as u want, I put them in a cricket cage, Hey guys they work good on Bluegill and cheaper and easier to handle than crickets