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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Stringman on July 12, 2013, 02:42:51 pm

Title: Noodling time
Post by: Stringman on July 12, 2013, 02:42:51 pm

Took my brother out for his first attempt at hand fishing. I took him to a log that has held 30 pounders in the past and sure enough it had a nice flathead under it. We had to work for about 45 minutes but finally he was able to pin it against the log while I ran a stringer threw it. He was happy, happy, happy when he saw how big that thing was!! Good times! And fish fry to come!

(http://i1311.photobucket.com/albums/s670/cotton7611/50331E88-774C-478A-9D16-FC5A2E263BD2-1158-0000016D3FF073C0_zpsea55502e.jpg)
(http://i1311.photobucket.com/albums/s670/cotton7611/48D806FD-7F50-43CF-BF14-268D539DF564-1158-0000016D462171CB_zps4d6534d8.jpg)
(http://i1311.photobucket.com/albums/s670/cotton7611/402F501A-A223-4371-AD8D-FD1EEA62E2BA-1158-0000016D4C5D4814_zps8c00ced0.jpg)

Title: Re: Noodling time
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on July 12, 2013, 02:51:56 pm

I knew something wasn't just right about you Scott!

Title: Re: Noodling time
Post by: PrimitiveTim on July 12, 2013, 02:55:55 pm

Haha!  so cool!  I always wanted to go noodling. lol

Title: Re: Noodling time
Post by: Poggins on July 12, 2013, 04:18:11 pm

Been a weird season around here , they usually hole up in the rivers first then the lakes not this year , they've been pulling them from the lakes for almost four weeks now and we found our first ones holed up in the river last weekend . My friend pulled two twenties out and I got a thirty pounder , we have to block the holes tight or they'll make a run for it.
We had a big fish kill down river from where we noodle but it didn't effect our holes yet .

Title: Re: Noodling time
Post by: Buffalogobbler on July 12, 2013, 07:37:58 pm

Cool pics!
The last one makes me hungry for a fish fry with onion rings and hush puppies!

Kevin

Title: Re: Noodling time
Post by: mullet on July 12, 2013, 11:07:42 pm

Nice fish, Scott. If your Brother wants some exciting noodling come on down here. You guys will probably be a first. I have never met anyone my whole life that has ever reached back into a hole under water to feel around down here. 8)

Title: Re: Noodling time
Post by: Stringman on July 12, 2013, 11:58:16 pm

Ha! Took me a minute, but I hear ya. Actually I'm heading ur way. Hope to be near dunnellon around Tues. visiting my bro-in-law.

Title: Re: Noodling time
Post by: H Rhodes on July 13, 2013, 12:12:18 am

I shoulda figured you for a noodler!   :D  We have had so much rain the rivers are too high to think about it.  I think that flatheads in the twenty to thirty pound range taste better than any other kind of fish.  Don't let their looks fool you - they fry up just right. 

Title: Re: Noodling time
Post by: mullet on July 13, 2013, 02:58:47 pm

Quote from: Stringman on July 12, 2013, 11:58:16 pm

Ha! Took me a minute, but I hear ya. Actually I'm heading ur way. Hope to be near dunnellon around Tues. visiting my bro-in-law.

Cool, come on over and give me some knapping lessons. :D