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So Big Pond, are you a noodler or what?

Here's a video of girls noodling:
http://www.catfishgrabblers.com/GGGMusicVideo300k.wmv

I don't think I could do this!! I might try it in a pond like Gunner!!
I have heard alot of people drowning while doing this...Some times people can get a hold of a stout blue and they have taken them under and away!!
Gunner in 8 feet of water a blue half the size of the man could drown some one!! Don't you think??

I would love to hear more on this!!

Has any one caught Channels by noodling???

You know Gunner it does seem as if the blue has an Awful strong bite!! He can REALLY clamp down I mean HARD!!.. Makes you really glad they don't have teeth!! They would be a fresh water shark!!

I tried noodling a couple of times. On the third time I caught about a 15 pound catfish of some kind. This was about 300 years ago when I thought of bad bulls and horses as recreational toys. That catfish dang near scraped all of the hide off of my arm. I got it to the surface but let go of it. Funny how my friends enjoyed the show. Never again.

yes you can catch channel cats all day if you go under boat docks or under the big rocks they use to line the damns of smaller lakes. they are fun but hard to catch because they bite and run. this is a fun thing to do with people who have never done it before. the booom sound a catfish makes under water is scarier for more people than the fish itself. talk about fun but in oklahoma at least you can only keep flatheads to be legal.
as far as the blues bitting hard yes they can bite verrrrrry hard. much harder than flatheads. i think it has to do with the muscles on their heads where flatheads don't have as much, its mostly just bone. with a blue, they will sometimes bite and squeeze your hand or foot or whatever goes in the hole first. i sometimes stick my foot in the bank of a river first, if the hole goes towards the surface it can be a beaver hole. never been bit by a beaver, don't want that story to tell. but i have felt many.
i have taken buddies with me so they could try it, and it has been the best memories. we laugh about it over some cold beers later. its even better if you use scuba goggles because you get to see their reaction when they are bit. i damn near drown last year laughing before i reached the surface.
as far as the big blues drowning someone. i think it is the lack of experience that causes the danger not the fish. usually someone goes into a river bank and they get hung or even when noodling those rocks i mentioned, you have to be careful not to stick you hand in a place you can't pull it out of. i learned along time ago with blues they will turn you loose after about 10 seconds if you remain still. then you can come up and get a better breath and go back and get after it again. with a flat head they never just bite and squeeze, you have to react and grab them when they bite you or they will go way back in the bank if the hole is deep enough and sometimes you can't reach them. i never recommend going alone because you can drown in the most shallow water if your hand is caught in a rock. its more fun with buddies anyway. in oklahoma i believe they stocked the blue cats in the 1940's but i'm not for sure. anyway the biggest we have cought is 66 lbs. it was huge buy manageable. i think these big fish stop breeding after they get so old, i'm not sure but everything else does so i don't see why these fish wouldn't be the same. there have been a few caught over 100lbs on jug lines but none noodled that i have heard of. just a guess since i haven't caught many over 50lbs.
catfish start nesting pretty good after may 15th so i want to hear some stories. if i get some rain i will try to figure out how to send a picture on this thing.

Hey Big Pond, it was only a matter of time before Robinson reared his ugly head. I'm sure it was him casting the 2 votes for 1 star for the noodler/banker. I kicked him up. You need to get your vote in. He is my hero. If he would set up a noodling/grabbing lake with the "girls gone wild" as instructors, I would spend my vacations noodling/grabbing.

I gave him 3 stars as well...he is sort of a hero for us blue catters!!! Lake like that!! wow!! better be carfull!

big_pond, here's something for you...

http://www.pjstar.com/stories/052405/JEF_B6GIC2EH.068.shtml

This Tim Pruitt fellow holding that blue cat must be a big boy. With the fish at 120 lbs. plus, he doesn't even look like he's straining to hold it up.

Boy OOhhh Boy, What a Magnificent Animal...I really hope it survives the 55,000 gallon tank!! I hope to stay up on the story to see how he makes out!!
Fought him for 40 minutes!! WOW!!

I wonder if we will EVER catch one of the 300 pounders that people talked about 100 years ago...

...sorry big_pond

...sorry big_pond.

The Kansas City Star

The world-record catfish that had captured the imagination of fishermen across the Midwest won't be coming to Kansas City after all.

The 124-pound blue catfish caught Saturday night by Tim Pruitt of Fosterberg, Ill., on the Mississippi River was supposed to have been put on display in the aquarium at the Cabela's store in Kansas City, Kan.

And it was on its way there Monday. But the fish died en route, leaving the area minus one big projected tourist attraction.

"We're baffled by this," said Fred Cronin, a fisheries biologist for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. "We took a lot of precautions to see that the fish was comfortable.

"But we're talking about a fish that was very old, very heavy. The stress of being transported like that could have been too much."

Cabela's now has the fish and plans to use it to have two replica mounts made - one that will be on display in the store, another that will be given to Illinois for a display in a museum.

The fish itself may also be loaned to the Illinois DNR for genetic tests and various studies on big catfish.

Oh well...I kinda though this might happend...They are doing research on him now I suppose....What do you think supposed happend? I REALY Hope they find an answers...I have read some where that blues sometimes do this when caught...But no one knows what makes them die like this?? I knew of a guy on this forum way back..I believe his name was 'Newbee', I think..He had similar problems with his blues....... Boy that is too bad...