Note to Fairbank Tackle – we need one of these on the Island.
When fishing season is here, I find myself regularly dropping the 7, or 8, or 9 dollars or whatever remarkable price they’re fetching, on bloodworms.
I’ve seen these live bait machines over the last few years, but have never had the opportunity or occasion to use one. I had always imagined that someone had relabeled a soda machine and rigged the innards to be able to dispense bait containers instead of cans or bottles. A hack-job is what I had suspected.
These machines got their start from the modification of a single sandwich machine in 1993 in Northeastern, PA by a fisherman named Joe Meyer.
In 1995, Vending Consultants Incorporated designed and manufactured the first machine specifically for the purpose of dispensing bait and today they are all over the country and retail for $3,500 to $4,000 apiece.
I took this photo of a bait machine in North East, MD while headed to lunch at one of my favorite Chesapeake Bay restaurants in that area, Woody’s Crab House.
More info on the history and operation of the machines at the Milton Academy website.
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