fish-bait

Here's a good example of what kind of ugly little fish-bait might come slithering out.

Hullabaloo

Practically all of them are taken with a fish-bait either live or dead, and used stationary on the bottom or in mid-water trailed behind a boat.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1

It is a bottom feeder and will take a fish-bait either alive or dead; it is said occasionally to run at a spinning bait when used very deep.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1

Lieutenant-Colonel cross-examined old Pigey until his testimony looked like a box of fish-bait.

Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac

Average Jones pushed the collection of advertisements aside and returned to the opening phase of the problem, the fish-bait circular which Robinson had mailed him.

Average Jones

For rottenness sits in all the high places, and the white people feel that they are made mere fish-bait of, and that they have no civil rights under the domination of corn-field darkies, and army sutlers at the head of the State Government.

Recollections of the Inhabitants, Localities, Superstitions, and KuKlux Outrages of the Carolinas. By a "Carpet-Bagger" Who Was Born and Lived There

Yesterday, while catching grasshoppers for fish-bait, I nearly griped one in my hand; indeed, I rather think I did gripe it.

Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.

I know a liberal on the Sucker side: a really nice person, but pure fish-bait for the propaganda machine.

American Thinker

Misguided politicians and environmentalists are starving out farmers and farm laborers just so they can feel a tingly sensation of saving fish-bait.

Victorville Daily Press :

Redsox, chowderhead, fish-bait, arrogant scab needs to shut up.

Phillies Nation