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Clyde Bell: Catching and selling fish commercially

Interviewer: Were there other types of fish that you caught?

Clyde: Oh sure. We caught everything, even bass. Everything, in those seines. Now the blue gill sold for 3 cents a pound, and you could get a dime a pound for bass. 10 cents a pound, when you caught bass you made some money. Well anyhow, the government stopped that, no more seining for bass. You could put that on the prohibition list.
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