Any noodlers on this site

[chief deer]

A 70 and a 38. Chikaskia River Flatheads. Mike Smyth

[CherokeeKC]

Man i bet that one swallowed your whole arm!!

[budmenchaca]

Now those are fish! Good Lord! 

[jimmy]

I am a Kansas noodler.  We met at OJAM a few years back.  I came by the practice honestly (my grandpa, Pa, was an Okie).  It's the only fishin he did.  Me and a couple of friends will go out tommorow.  Last year was good, except that I broke my hand at the end of the season.  I was reaching down under a brush pile and I barely had hold of one and it flipped hard to the side and SNAP!   The good news is, I pulled 3 cats out of that brush, broken hand and all.  I got four screws and a nice battle scar on my hand now.  Never underestimate a cat fish (that had to be the Ol' General that I got hold of).  Last month we got a 38#, 32#, and a few in the 20# range.

[Badger]

  I have done it a few times with my in laws down in Mississippi, byt the looks of those fsh I think I would rather go with you guys!

[criveraville]

It just became legal here in Texas not long ago. I'm perfectly fine with driving with 30 live rattlers in the back seat of my car, but noodling is just too creepy for me  Nice haul.

Cipriano

[thomas h]

tried that once stuck  my thumb in a big ole turtle mouth snapper that is, he bit i hollered so i guess he won.



some cat's my dad caught many  years ago.

[Badger]

  On a fish that big do you cut the cheeks out of it?

[nclonghunter]

Badger,       
I noticed no one had replied. I have never noodled but want to. Cutting the cheeks out is a good question, but most may not know what you are asking. I had never heard of cutting the checks out until I started doing fish taxidermy years ago. I was amazed how much meat was in the cheeks below the eyes. On a good sized bass, I would remove a fifty cent piece of the best meat in a fish. Those big cats have got to have some big chunks of cheek meat.
Meet a fellow on the beach once and that is all he wanted from peoples fish. He would take a knife and make a circle cut under the eye and take the meat. Guess they fry like little fish medallions???

[Stringman]

Hoggin, loggin, noodlin, handfishin, or ticklin... Dont matter what ya call it, it is a great way to put tasty catfish nuggets on the dinner table (and a great way to cool off in the summer heat!) This is a pic of my buddy in our favorite hole.

Scott

[chief deer]

Nice fish Stringman. Thanks for showing us the hole<gg> Mike Smyth

[Rick Wallace]

YALL IS CRAZY!!  Ill keep my pole thank ya very much! 

[sleek]

My buddy tried to get me to go last summer. Nuh-Uhh said I. No tellin whats in them holes your sticking your hand in, snakes, turtles, beavers... Nope, no thank you. Never woulda thought a fish would snap your wrist though, I will have to add that to my list of Nuh-Uhh reasons...

[chief deer]

Aw come on Sleek tell us how you really feel<gg> Mike Smyth

[JW_Halverson]

If you wanna come up here and try that this winter, I will fit a 36 inch bar on my chainsaw to get you into the water!  Unless some of you skinnier guys can fit thru the 9" ice auger holes...