yes, the old type ring phones used throughout the early telephone system can produce quite a current....we did use it with electric wire attached to lengths of trace chain and pitch them out in the river about 100 feet apart...my job was to turn the crank....about 1-2 minutes of cranking, the fish would float to the surface stunned by the current....dad and others in the wooden john boat would scoop out the medium sized fish....we actually got a 40+ pound blue catfish which my uncle dived into the water and wrestled to the bank...that fish kicked his ass really good but he got him.....hadn't thought about those days in a while....AND, yes it is illegal.......too many started hooking up generators and that spoiled it for everybody else....all this occurred in Mississippi in the late 40's on the Big Black river..........tom
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