Have you ever been noodling? Dogging? Stumping?

[SPKrazy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noodling

I am not sticking my hands underneath rocks in rivers looking for catfish :scared:

:shrug:


just wondered, I know people who do, and whatever floats yer boat! :D

:hi:

[MrCoffee]

1. i was enthralled by a PBS show about this very thing

i was flipping channels (no cable, so i can get through them all in about 6 seconds) when i saw some redneck in a meshback cap wandering through a muddy stream. "hey, that looks weird", i thought. and i was right!

i sat there for about 10 minutes, enraptured at the spectacle of grown men sticking their hands down catfish holes. i even dragged MrsCoffee to the couch, and she too was in awe of these brave souls who pull giant catfish from the depths. we watched the whole thing.

[SPKrazy]

2. yeah, its strange all right

but is interesting too...

:shrug:

[MrCoffee]

3. i had no idea people even did that

i've been catfishing plenty, but i'd never in a million years stick my bare hand down there and try to grab one. they bite like hell.

come to find out it's a family tradition. huh.

[stuntcat]

5. that was what I saw

the PBS show :headbang: We got the dvd of it as a gift for the fisherman of the family.
I don't know what else to call it but WEIRD.

[Roon]

4. My cousin is very quick with his hands

When we were kids he used to snatch trout out of a river. He also starting catching flies in mid-air when he was 5. Not the most sanitary thing in the world.

[plcdude]

6. Dogging

Engaging in a type of public sex activity called dogging

[guitar man]

7. I used to noodle quite a bit

when I was a kid. I re thought the whole thing one day when I was out noodling with my friend and his dad. His dad stuck his hand into a hole in the bank looking for a big catfish and there was a beaver in the hole. Bit one of his fingers damn near off :wow:

I switched to more finger-friendly methods of catching catfish after that.

[EstimatedProphet]

8. I went to grad school with a guy who used that as part of his study

He was looking at the efficacy of nesting boxes for catfish on big rivers, as i recall. He'd grab the fish out of the boxes.