@Red Beard post about fishing drainage ditches reminded me of what happened many years ago when I lived in Moore, OK.  We lived there for a couple years and my son and I would fish on weekends at any pond we could find.  There were none closer than 10 miles away.  One day he was waiting for me in the driveway when I got home from work.  He had a coffee can with a bunch of crawdads in it!  Since there was no water within miles I was astonished!  We had what I called Concrete Cricks, that carried rain runoff but were otherwise dry.  He was using a length of string with a crappie hook and a piece of corn and lowering it down into the expansion seams in the concrete and crawdads would latch onto the corn!

Two points:  One can find life in the strangest places and never discount the creativity of a 10 year old who wants to catch something!

 

Love it Al. Thank you for sharing.

Great story, Al.

That's great, thanks for sharing. My boy has a little blue kiddy pool. It has a couple of inches of dirt in it, topped by water. Sprinkle in some leaves and a few sticks, and we have a bullfrog motel in our yard.

 

He commences to aggrivate the bullfrogs every chance he gets.