Jiminy Crickets, I’m a Little Tipsy

Whether I am fishing for bluegill (where the descriptor is wholly appropriate) or marlin (where it is most definitely not), I almost always refer to my lure as “my cricket.”

As in, “He really wanted that cricket.”

Or, “That fish messed up my cricket.”

Truth be told, I haven’t used a live cricket as bait in possibly as many as 40+ years, but the thought of it harkens back to a simpler time, before I accumulated so much tackle. Back then, I couldn’t legally drink, but now I can and I’m going to try to celebrate the cricket era of my life with one of the following:

Cricket Brews

Friends and Allies Brewing

Noisy Cricket

Badger Lemony Cricket

Tokorozawa Brewery

Cricket Dark Ale

Behemoth Brewing Company

There’s No Crying in Cricket

Cricket Bars

Cricket Hill Brewery (NJ)

Rickety Cricket Brewing (AZ)

Grasshopper Beers

Big Rock Brewery

Grasshopper Kristallweizen

Smuttynose

Phat Grass Hopper

Mob Craft Beer

Grasshopper Milk Stout

Westerham Brewery

Grasshopper Red Ale

And if you need extra hops:

Gorgeous Brewery

Grasshopper CBD Pale Ale

You can even have your own grasshopper themed bar!

Grasshopper Brewery (UK)

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