fish-bait

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

Hullabaloo 2006

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

Hullabaloo 2006

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

Hullabaloo 2006

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

Hullabaloo 2006

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 Various

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 Various

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 William H. Armstrong

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 Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

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 1880

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. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834