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Jason and Crowbar
I don't normally watch much TV on Sat morning, but I watched Jason and Crowbar this morning on OLN. They were catching catfish by hand under the creek banks.
What a riot, they looked like they were having a ball. I've used rod and reel to catch catfish, but I've never done it by hand. 25 and 30 pounders look like quite a job to wrestle into a boat by hand.
What a riot, they looked like they were having a ball. I've used rod and reel to catch catfish, but I've never done it by hand. 25 and 30 pounders look like quite a job to wrestle into a boat by hand.
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As a kid I use to catfish at night with just 6 lb hand lines. We'd catch 40 or 50 in total a night.Only keeping anything 10 lbs or over . We'd bring home 10 to 20 and grill them for breakfest. Was a slow process bringing them in but we had a blast. We would put a small bell on the line to hear when it got a strike.
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I've heard about people wading up and down creeks, reaching into holes in the bank, or hollow logs, and grabbing catfish by the mouth, and hauling them out of the water into the boat.
First time I'd watched it on TV. They had a johnboat full of big blues and flatheads at the end of the show.
First time I'd watched it on TV. They had a johnboat full of big blues and flatheads at the end of the show.
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yeah,guys do it around here all the time...I can't remember the name they have for it,but it is pretty popular....sorry,i have seen to many things that swim in the waters around here to be stickin my hand in unseen holes 
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That's the truth. We have huge snapping turtles around here. Some of them could definitely leave you with a few less fingers. I'm not sure if muskies hole up like catfish, but one of them could tear up a whole lotta skin.
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Check this site out for "Catfisting" thats what they called it on The King of the Hill cartoon. http://www.okienoodling.com/
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We just call it noodling, you can get some good size flatheads like that, usually 30 to 35 pounders. We used to put out 55 gallon drums with a hole in one end and you would go down and reach in, turn the fish, grab him by the mouth and bring him out. Well I got a pretty good one , got him turned and got his mouth and all of a sudden he started up my arm and started to do an alligator roll on the way up. It basically felt like someone spinning 80 grit sandpaper up your arm. From what I was told by the guys watching is that there was a lot of bubbles (me screaming underwater) and me shooting out of the water pretty quickly, an them laughing at me for about an hour.
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Hand fishing or noodling, it ain't for me as what else is in that black muddy water ya don't see might wanta hurt ya. Now dyamite fishing, well thats another sport all together, "pot luck blasting". I was lookin fer cray fish fer dinner and poked around the shore until I got into a little cave that had a badger, my eyeballs had a race to see which one would poke out of my rectum first. Yes a true story happened many years ago, beer was involved.
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I would never THINK of eating one of those ugly things. Blech...
Big catfish like those yield lots and lots of good, firm fillets. Beer battered and fried up, yummy. I still remember a 40 pound channel cat my dad brought home from fishing in the St. John's river one day. We all had a nice fish fry that night.
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i would just love to land on of those monster cats. i guess that would be a task next time i go to my grandparents house in VA. i just love anything wild and dangerous, like killing snakes and such. im such a thrill addict. only yesterday i took the life form a baby copperhead with my boot heel. he never stood a chance.
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