Can We Go Fishin..

[Mr70]

..while we are attending SCR8 in Collinsville Il. Sept.2-3?



ALTON, Ill. (AP) -- The 124-pound catfish a man from the St. Louis area town of Godfrey, Illinois, caught in the Mississippi River is getting a new home in Kansas City, Kansas.

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources says the 58-inch-long fish is the largest catfish ever caught in Illinois and the largest blue catfish every caught in the world. The largest blue catfish caught previously weighed in at 121 pounds, eight ounces.

It took more than a half-hour for Tim Pruitt to drag the mammoth fish into his boat after he hooked in late Saturday below the Melvin Price Lock and Dam on the Mississippi River at Alton.

The Natural Resources Department says the fish has been kept alive and will be on display in a tank at the Cabela's Outfitter store in Kansas City.
(Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

[Chevy454]

Hooked it? In these parts, ones that big are usually noodled out...

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

'noodled out'? Interpretation please!

[Schonyenko2]

AKA hand fishing. You find them on their nest, or in holes along the bank, and stuff your hand/arm in their mouth, and drag em out. (NOTE) Watch out it's not a snapping turtle, and you're not in deep water, as one that size will drown you if it doesn't let go.

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

What the?

[Belair62]

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stuff your hand/arm in their mouth

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[Mr70]

I saw a Program where they demonstrated "Noodlin".
Two men sank a hollowed out stump in a narrow area of lake 4 feet deep.They came back later to see if a Giant catfish had claimed the stump it's home.
One man stood up in the water and crouched down to insert his entire hand and arm into the stump,and see if anything grabs onto it..You watch the mans face as half his arm gets taken into the Catfish's mouth.
He calls out "He took it!"..and the struggle of endurance begins.
The man in the boat offers assisitance if he needs it,but otherwise it is one man,standing in 4 feet of water,trying to land that catfish into the boat under his own strength and stamina.It can go on for a very long agonizing period,as you have to pull him out of the stump with your arm in his mouth,the put your other arm around it and lift it out of the water and onto the boat.
As Ken mentioned,sometimes you better pray you are stronger then the Catfish,or he'll take you under.

[12bolt]

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stuff your hand/arm in their mouth

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[/ QUOTE ] a Tradition still Carried on to this Day. I wonder who thought of it in the first place and how long it has been happening. almost sounds like a Biblical story!!

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

I think it means 'out of your noodle', that's nutz!

[Chevy454]

Several of the folks around here *partake* in a little noodlin' now and then...the pictures are one thing, but to see how those fish chew up their arms is something else!