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Only costs you about $3 or so for a heart and they bait is extremely tough, multiple fish can be caught on the same bait without having to rebait.
What is the best bait to catch Channel cats on a trotline. 2009
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Only costs you about $3 or so for a heart and they bait is extremely tough, multiple fish can be caught on the same bait without having to rebait.
What is the best bait to catch Channel cats on a trotline. 2009
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The fisherman begins wading over to me as I rebait and cast out.
Stockies 2002
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He did not rebait his hook and held it in his hand as he waded.
The Short Stories Ernest Hemingway 1953
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Then a lobsterman has to rebait his traps, and as he does that with rotten fish, it's not a sweet job.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918
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He hastened to rebait the hook and throw out the line.
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Time and bait are both lost in the vain attempt: patiently he rebaits, until he finds the rebait brings his box of gentles to a discount; and then, in no gentle humour, with a baitless hook, and abated ardor, he winds up his line and his day's amusement (?) -- and departs, with the determination of trying fortune (who has tried him) on some, future and more propitious day.
Sketches — Complete Robert Seymour 1818
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Time and bait are both lost in the vain attempt: patiently he rebaits, until he finds the rebait brings his box of gentles to a discount; and then, in no gentle humour, with a baitless hook, and abated ardor, he winds up his line and his day's amusement (?) -- and departs, with the determination of trying fortune (who has tried him) on some, future and more propitious day.
Sketches — Volume 01 Robert Seymour 1818
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There was certainly a seasonal feel to the first Penarth SAC Christmas competition with the pier deck covered in ice and the anglers fishing there sliding up to their rods to rebait or reel in a fish.
WalesOnline - Home 2010
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He did not rebait his hook and held it in his hand as he waded.
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