Noodling/hand grabbing how and where do you noodle ? Post pics
Oct 7, 2019 16:25:39 #
I have done this and it works. I won't noodle myself but I've caught some great cats by dropping a jig and pig like we use for bass in front of the opening and jigging it around a bit. Head comes out and chomps down and you hope he bolts for open water and not back in the hole. 50-50 on that. I have also down this on tires people have left laying in shallow water by hopping the jig through the open sand in tire. No noodling but taking them on a flippin' stick is great fun.
Oct 7, 2019 16:28:17 #
No thank you, some 30+ years back I got the privilege of meeting a man who lost all his flesh on the lower right arm, it was took away by the 38lb flat head he ended up catching out of lake Eufaula Ok
Oct 7, 2019 16:35:57 #
Now that's the stories I was waiting to read. Just to confirm for me not to do this noodling.
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Oct 7, 2019 20:26:33 #
blaylock
Loc: Okla/Mexico
Sinner wrote:
You do know snapping turtles live there too?
Noodling is too risky for me.
Noodling is too risky for me.
turtles, beavers, barb wire, sheet iron, etc etc..but its really a big deal here in Okla...
Oct 7, 2019 20:39:18 #
Before I left the area in 09 I was told a person could use a gaff hook in the upper area of grand river going into Gibson, and above, myself I wouldn't put any stock in it though. Also on fort Gibson dam, we had to start using barbless hooks for snagging spoon Bill's. So I am not sure because I had a friend that worked Gibson lake, Highway patrol, that stated I could no longer have a gaff hook, he wouldn't answer to many questions at church and that is the only place I really seen him. Only seen him a time or two while I was working at paradise cove marina where they kept one of there Boston whaler boats.
Oct 7, 2019 20:48:41 #
Oct 7, 2019 22:03:06 #
bottomcoon
Loc: Tahlequah, oklahoma
I'm not a noodler myself but I have often volunteered to "hold the sack" for my crazy friends. A great time is usually had by all with a good fish fry to top it off. I was born with only 1 non replaceable arm on each shoulder & sticking 1 of them into a hole where creatures lived that would eat that arm just never appealed to me. It was not easy for me to watch those friends teach my son to noodle. The boy loved it, but he wasn't ever quite right anyway. Good luck men.
Oct 7, 2019 22:28:03 #
Jonmaly
Loc: Porter Texas. 20 minutes north of Houston
Closest I ever got to noodling once banking a 35 lb cat and the only way I could get it on Shore was to stick my hand down its mouth. It did bite down and I was able to land it
Oct 7, 2019 22:52:35 #
We caught them fairly large cats most of my life, and I finally bought a net that we could get them in, but I usually forgot the crazy thing, sitting in a boat I was always nominated to retrieve them from the water, so I had to put hand into mouth, and when they would bite down, there was instant blood, but had to hold them until in boat and pry the jaws open to get fingers back. My fingers on both hands got so sore it made it hard to close my hands, but still had to work long hours every day. I guess some fools just are hard to teach.
Oct 7, 2019 22:54:50 #
Oct 7, 2019 23:10:09 #
You got it. Or the local catfish buffet house. They have a great buffet in Catoosa Oklahoma by near the barge canal.
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