Toad Fishing

[WelderDan]

Back when I was a kid, there wasn't much to do in a small town. There was only 3 TV channels, and if you weren't into Hee Haw, or Wheel of Fortune you had to get your entertainment where you could find it.

After dark, the porch light would attract bugs, which attracted Toads. I would take a piece of black thread and make a couple small loops at one end, then make a good knot so it looked kinda like a bug. Then I'd tie it to a stick and dangle it in front of the Toads.

It was funny to watch, and if you flicked your wrist, old froggy would fly a couple of feet giving other Toads a shot.

Anyone else try this, or something similar when you were a kid?

 

[_tessarecting]

I think I'll try this tonight

 

[trichrider]

things were more elegant in simplicity than of today.

ipads and focus in general are the current conundrum.

innocent entertainment is still accessible though too.

corollary today would be blowing up cows in minecraft (game).

 

[Jellyfish]

Used to shoot a bats circling a street light with a bb gun. Only ever hit one, and it got up a flew away. Good times.

 

[Betterhaff]

Playing with bats. We used to launch ping-pong balls with a modified slingshot at dusk. They game was to see how long they would follow it.

 

[BOMBAYCAT]

OK don't hate on me. When I grew up in the Midwest around 4th of July we would catch toads, shove a firecracker down their throat, light it and turn the toad loose. They would go hop, hop, boom and you can guess the rest.

 

[420somewhere]

I remember hunting Toads in Texas..

I remember hunting Toads in Texas..

We used shotguns. The old farmers would get upset if you were too close to the herd.
I had an old shotgun go off in my hand, luckily I only got a scratch.

And of course you only hunt Toads when you are stoned.

 

[gekolite]

I used to hunt frogs in Missouri when I was a kid , get in a small boat ,with a flash light , a smooth bore 22ca. use bird shot, shine light in bull frogs eye get close and shoot frogs eye, get a couple a dozen or so , and then head to my aunts house , cook em up, finger licken good .

 

[al70]

I used to catch 15 lb mullet from the river by hitting them with bricks

 

[al70]

I knew this crazy bas***d who kept homing pigeons, if he got a useless one he'd tie fishing line around its feet and let it fly off, then tug n take its feet off, seemingly a bird won't try to land without feet n flys till it dies, whatta **** he was.

 

[redlaser]

We used to find the older soda and beer cans that had the sides that were straight from top to bottom before they came out with the crimped ones they have now. Take six and take the tops and bottoms off and on a seventh put an inch hole near the base of the can. Use duct tape to assemble into tennis ball canon with the seventh can on the bottom that still has its top. Tennis ball will fit in these cans well, spray a small amount of lighter fluid in the hole of the bottom can, shake, and point in a safe direction because it has the potential to go a city block.
Duct tape is a big flaw in the design though unless only using a couple times. It will for sure eventually catch fire during use, happened to us. We would use it until the tape got so hot it would fall apart. I know there are pvc versions, this was done by kids in the seventys

 

[al70]

We used to find the older soda and beer cans that had the sides that were straight from top to bottom before they came out with the crimped ones they have now. Take six and take the tops and bottoms off and on a seventh put an inch hole near the base of the can. Use duct tape to assemble into tennis ball canon with the seventh can on the bottom that still has its top. Tennis ball will fit in these cans well, spray a small amount of lighter fluid in the hole of the bottom can, shake, and point in a safe direction because it has the potential to go a city block.
Duct tape is a big flaw in the design though unless only using a couple times. It will for sure eventually catch fire during use, happened to us. We would use it until the tape got so hot it would fall apart. I know there are pvc versions, this was done by kids in the seventys

LOL. Teenage pipe b*mb

 

[WelderDan]

We used to find the older soda and beer cans that had the sides that were straight from top to bottom before they came out with the crimped ones they have now. Take six and take the tops and bottoms off and on a seventh put an inch hole near the base of the can. Use duct tape to assemble into tennis ball canon with the seventh can on the bottom that still has its top. Tennis ball will fit in these cans well, spray a small amount of lighter fluid in the hole of the bottom can, shake, and point in a safe direction because it has the potential to go a city block.
Duct tape is a big flaw in the design though unless only using a couple times. It will for sure eventually catch fire during use, happened to us. We would use it until the tape got so hot it would fall apart. I know there are pvc versions, this was done by kids in the seventys

We did this too.

 

[stoned-trout]

step one get fly rod..step 2 dangle fly in front of frog..step 3 cast out frog and catch 6 lb bass or bigger.... ..circle of life...caught shitloads of frogs and toads...big frogs are good eating also...I had a pond in my back yard as a kid along with a marsh/swamp , a river and a lake attached....spent a lot of time outside....still do....yeehaw...we got tree frogs here...loud ass little guys..