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Post by downinmyback on Mar 6, 2007 0:13:47 GMT -5
Today was so nice i was thinking about when i noodling for catfish. Before two back surgery's i was either hunting or fishing. My wife complained that if i was not at work i was gone lol. I doubt many people know the trick to noodling but it was dangerous because you mite get hold of a Gar , Grinnel Snapping turtle or even a snake. I had a old timer show me how to do it but he was missing two finger from when a snapping turtle got him. . He alway carried a jug of (shine ) when he went. He also taught me how to find turtle in the mud with a slender stick. There is nothing better than turtle meat. I guess this is enough rambling for now. Later
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Post by johno on Mar 28, 2007 12:36:01 GMT -5
Yeah... scared of hidden snappers...
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Post by Alan on Mar 28, 2007 12:53:02 GMT -5
there used to be an old man who lived here along blue river outside of pekin. He loved turtle meat, absolutly loved it. Anyhow, he noodled for snaping turtles up underneath the cliffs, litterally reaching up under them and draging them out, funny thing is he was missing two finger on one hand from doing that. Just not something I think I want to try.
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Post by mbrown on Mar 28, 2007 13:01:57 GMT -5
Noodling is popular in Oklahoma. On TV and radio remarks are made about noodlers being rednecks. However, I have a nephew in the Tulsa area, a psychiatrist by profession, whose hobbies are hunting, noodling and frog gigging.
Mike
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Post by Alan on Mar 28, 2007 15:22:16 GMT -5
Right on, sounds like my kind of head doctor. Frog gigging brings back memories, of the nastiest sound I ever heard....ewww
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Post by kimikat on Mar 30, 2007 10:53:50 GMT -5
Out at our old house we had a little pond...With a HUGE family of bull frogs. One of them had been there for as long as my parents owned the land. Anyway, these frogs were HUGE...They looked like giant cowpies hopping across the pond. Anyway...One night I noticed it had gotten quieter and asked Mom and Dad about it. We we went over to my grandma's (she lived right across the highway from us) and as per usual she was sitting in her kitchen listening to the CB and her neighbors were bragging about having frog legs for supper. I don't know how they managed to get over there with out waking our dogs up (at the time my Dad was a Raccoon hunter) but they did. The only one of the big frogs that survived was the one that had been there since my parents bought the land. I think they called him Hermie...I think...
As for noodling...I don't have to go hunting for turtles...I just wait till it rains real hard and they end up in my front yard. And there've been some doozies that have had to be scooted back down to the creek.
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Post by downinmyback on Mar 30, 2007 21:31:50 GMT -5
Turtle meat is a good meat. We catch both the softshell and the snapper turtl. Man that is some FINE eating.
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Post by Alan on Apr 4, 2007 19:00:35 GMT -5
Snapping turtle is delicious, exspecially if you can find somebody that knows how to use an oven and lots of butter! Just be carefull and don't be killing any 'gator snappers as they are still pretty endangered in some places. Turtles have been a facination of mine since I was a child, I was always draging them home to play with. We don't have softsheled turtles here though I have seen some, I can't remember the particular name but there is one that lives in apalachian Ky that is brown and flat, it likes to lie in streams that lead to ponds and in the fall when the leaves are coming down you can step right over top of it and never see it!
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Post by brook on Apr 8, 2007 8:34:50 GMT -5
Worst noodling story I know:
I was guiding and handling PR for Arrowhead Hunt Club, up in Iowa, years back. We used to sponsor the--ready for it---Iowa/Illinois Open Team Pheasant Hunting Championship.
These four boys come up from Mississippi to compete. Nicest guys you ever met, all four the embodiment of the word "sportsman." Anyway, they start talking about noodling (which I had never heard of, at the time) and how much fun it is.
The one who was most into it really raved about it. Thing is, though, he was an eye surgeon. I couldn't believe he would do such a thing in the name of fun. I mean, if I lose a finger it's an inconvenience. If he loses one, it's his life down the toilet.
Kind of scary to think about, even now.
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Post by shadowwalker on Apr 16, 2007 21:58:52 GMT -5
I went noodling with my uncles and cousins when I was about 11 years old. I spent one afternoon into the night. We then went frog gigging. And then we went catfishing until the next morning. I had the best time. I only did it a couple of times after that. I wouldn't even try it now. I like my fingers too much.
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Post by johno on Jun 19, 2007 16:36:01 GMT -5
I heard the trick to noodling this weekend, and it makes sense. If you stick your hand in the tunnel and it curves upward, it ain't a catfish hole!
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Aug 9, 2007 23:41:05 GMT -5
Watching a show about it on PBS right now.
I love Catfish, but I don't love them that much, lol
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Post by downinmyback on Aug 10, 2007 3:42:02 GMT -5
Ah Blue you never know the thrill of noodling if you have never done it.
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Post by brook on Aug 15, 2007 6:59:09 GMT -5
Same can be said about skydiving---another thrill I'll never know.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Aug 15, 2007 7:28:48 GMT -5
Or bungee jumping.
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