You know, the art of barehanded fishing. I'm going on a noodling trip to Oklahoma next week. Any runners on this site ever give it a try?!?!
You know, the art of barehanded fishing. I'm going on a noodling trip to Oklahoma next week. Any runners on this site ever give it a try?!?!
Yes. What are you noodling for? Catfish?. I'm not sure what is legal. I have usually done it in the same way I sometimes chase rabbits etc. Just to see if I could hunt/fish weithout any gear. PS watch out for fin spines, they can give you a nasty festering wound.
Hawkeye wrote:
Yes. What are you noodling for? Catfish?. I'm not sure what is legal. I have usually done it in the same way I sometimes chase rabbits etc. Just to see if I could hunt/fish weithout any gear. PS watch out for fin spines, they can give you a nasty festering wound.
Yep, catfish. I'm hoping to catch some 30 pounders.
I noodle at Phish shows man
"Noodling" sounds like a real man's, "brokeback" kind of sport.
Are there banjos playing too?
watch for snakes. seriously. this sport definetly isn't for any of you concrete jungle monkeys.
I've noodled (not surprising given my handle) bu totally without success. It takes a ton of practice form what I can determine. Not something you can just do well in a weekend unless you are very lucky.
In the Northeast - we used to do this for fun as kids in the mid-summer for trout. We'd go into a small creek during a hot, dry spell and go into undercut banks and try to pin them against the top of the banks. It took a bit of practice to get the hang of it, and you never did feel entirely comfortable doing it as we were "blind" fishing, and more than once we ran into snapping turtles. A couple of minor scrapes, nothing serious.
The most unnerving experience I had was while wading down a small trout stream and suddenly stepping on something large and powerful. It turns out it was just a beaver, but it may as well have been the loch ness monster. The water was very clear until that moment.....
Noodling, huh? Such a wierd name. When I was chasing down deer was I noodling? When you are out there in the woods "noodling", be careful a bear doesn't noodle you!
here is the best noodlining pictures!
Oh god. They're huge!
I'm from Missouri where noodling is now legal. Its a lot of fun, but be prepared to get beat up, catfish can beat the living crap out of you.
Interesting....entice a 70 lb flat head catfish to attack and latch on to your arm.......guys have to be from the south.
I'm guessing there has to be a number of guys from Texas who noodle also.
It is interesting what kinds of fish you find in water where they really aren't supposed to live. There are large Channel Catfish in the St. Lawrence river and even some Flatheads. I remember seeing a huge Flathead which was stirred up by the wake of a ship next to a large concrete pier. It looked like it could have swallowed a child.
