Not only did "just about every corner around the lake held some sort of bait shop" as opsman wrote, there were very many of those bait stands that seemed to be nearly everywhere, consisting of little more than a table operated by the relatively young boys of somebodies' family. They sold nightcrawlers and that was about it. I distinctly remember a dozen fat, juicy, healthy 'crawlers packed in styrofoam cups with damp newspaper shreds costing $.50/ dozen. Those were the days!