Welcome to this Country Life. I'm your host Brent Reaves. From Conehutton to

Trotline and in just general country living I want you to stay a while as I share

my stories and country skills that will help you beat the system. This Country

Life is proudly presented as part of Meet Eaters podcast network bringing

you the best outdoor podcast in the airways have to offer. Alright friends,

pull you up a chair or drop that tailgate. I think I got a finger to teach you.

Catching Catfish with Trotlines. You're in for a treat today. We're talking about

catching catfish with Trotlines. We're going to talk about what a trot line is,

how to make one, what to use for bait and where to fish them. Now if you'll just

tie a knot and hang on with me till the end I'll share the Reaves family

recipe for frying up a mess of fillets that'll knock you out so hard you'll be

hollering who flung the chunk. But first I'm going to tell you a story.

I graduated high school in 1984. Graduation night about 20 of us were packed and

ready to roll Florida for a week of doing what youngins did back then went away

from adult supervision, which probably pales in comparison to what some do now.

But as the time of our departure grew nearer my interest in leaving for the

week grew weaker and weaker. Especially after I overheard a couple of

acquaintances discussing the drugs they'd acquired and were taken with them.

Now I had no interest in that or being around it, which was the same view my

friends had. They were just folks that were kind of hitching a ride and going along.

It was also kind of ironic that a few short years later I'd be up to my

eyeballs and the drug culture and making a living pretending to love it. But I

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