BRRRR!!!!
Damn it is cold up here! The thermometer got down to minus 10 degrees last night and with the wind it felt MUCH colder. It barely broke out of the single digits for a high temperature yesterday. There was a story on the radio this morning about a worm digger who literally froze into his boots out on a mudflat. It was a considerable amount of time before a fellow digger found him and freed him. He is currently in the hospital suffering from hypothermia and frostbite.
It just struck me that you probably ignored that story after the phrase “worm digger”; then your mind wandered off and you began to ask yourself what a “worm digger” was. A worm digger is one of the many people who make a living working Maine’s coastline. They are at the bottom of the social hierarchy when it comes to fishermen. They work, and look, much like a clam digger as they hoe the mudflats of Maine but instead of searching for clams they are digging for marine worms which are prized by anglers as bait. As an avid striped bass fisherman, I can tell you that these things slay the fish. It is like putting candy in the water…
Digging bait is hard, back-breaking work, but it does allow an individual the ability to make a couple hundred dollars on a good day without the confines of a traditional “job” with bosses, time clocks and taxes. Not an entirely bad prospect when you think about it……accept for the occasional frozen boots.
It just struck me that you probably ignored that story after the phrase “worm digger”; then your mind wandered off and you began to ask yourself what a “worm digger” was. A worm digger is one of the many people who make a living working Maine’s coastline. They are at the bottom of the social hierarchy when it comes to fishermen. They work, and look, much like a clam digger as they hoe the mudflats of Maine but instead of searching for clams they are digging for marine worms which are prized by anglers as bait. As an avid striped bass fisherman, I can tell you that these things slay the fish. It is like putting candy in the water…
Digging bait is hard, back-breaking work, but it does allow an individual the ability to make a couple hundred dollars on a good day without the confines of a traditional “job” with bosses, time clocks and taxes. Not an entirely bad prospect when you think about it……accept for the occasional frozen boots.