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I USE TO BE A MASTER-BAITER!!!
I was the First Mate, (The ONLY Mate) and worked for a Black Captain named Jim Rivers that owned The Bugs Bunny Party Boat out of Ponce Inlet, Florida.
I was paid about $12.50 a day, but after tips and cleaning fish, I always took home $70-$500 a day.
Use to get up at 3 am. pack me a couple samiches, ride my bike 3 miles down to Ponce Inlet, Start Fueling the boat. Load 600 lbs. of Ice on board, Go to the bait freezer and get 6 boxes of squid and herring, and fight off 25 stray kitty cats. lol , then fill the 1,000 gal. tank with fresh water, start untangling the reels from the day before, start making 5' long fishing rigs with 120' line for the 10 oz. sinkers and 80' test line for the hooks. Then go down in the Hull and check the water and oil on the (2) 350 hp. Cummings Diesel Engines. Then I had to throw the cast net and get some live bait fish (for the BIG Grouper and Snapper) that we caught. All this before the Captain arrived at 5:30 am.
Then we would load 60-80 people on board and head out fishing. Get back in about 5-6 pm, unload all the fish, board them and take pictures for the tourists to buy, then clean all the fish. I usually got home about 9-10pm, riding my bike 3 miles back home in the dark. All that for $12.50 A DAY. But I always had time to fish, and bring home 20 lbs. of cleaned fish fillets every night.

And kids now days want $15 an hour to be Little Liberal Commie Pieces Of Shit serving burgers and fries.
Thinking about it, I WOULDN'T HAVE TRADED THAT JOB FOR ANY IN THE WORLD.

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