Why is it if someone don't like something it always is wrong. Hand fishing is fine if anything change the limits not the method. There's no difference in catching the fish on rod lines or hand it still a limit and you can't argue with that. If we don't get on the the same page as outdoorsman we will not have to worry about anything because all the anti hunters and fishers will get there way one law at a time.

I have posted this link before. You are preaching to the choir.

I'll give you the short version. Noodling was made legal in Texas because the spoiled brat son of billionaire, Brady Knowlton, used his Daddy's lobbyist to get a bill past directly in the legislature so he could have his own reality show on Animal Planet. It got canceled after 3 shows. His younger brother just received worldwide condemnation for bidding $350K so he could hunt a black rhino. These people use their money to get whatever they want...and they don't care who or what they hurt to get it.

The good thing is I bet Brady Knowlton hasn't noodling one time since his show got canceled...so his money probably won't get in the way of a repeal.

Why is it if someone don't like something it always is wrong. Hand fishing is fine if anything change the limits not the method. There's no difference in catching the fish on rod lines or hand it still a limit and you can't argue with that. If we don't get on the the same page as outdoorsman we will not have to worry about anything because all the anti hunters and fishers will get there way one law at a time.

muzzlebreak ... noodling has the fish population lots lower in Oklahoma along with other practices that have oklahoma to where it's got no where near the same healthy fish population as any of those lakes around dallas area ... these are nice deep lakes compared to tawakoni and ray hubbard but we don't have nearly the same kind of big fish poplation in either of those lakes and I've been to a lot of them. You're never going to wipe out all the fish but there's no way it'll ever be as good in oklahoma as it is in texas just because of stuff like noodling and snaglines and lack of cpr ... you talk about cpr to an okie he'll look at you like you're a devil worshiper ... most of them anyhow

When you pull a nesting fish off it's eggs you're not just killing that one big mature fish ... you'[re killing hundreds of prospects. If not thousands ... When I noodled and found large males on eggs it seemed like those egg clusters had thousands of eggs in them .. channelcat seemed to have more than one female's eggs in their nests too cause I've pulled eggs out of some nests and there would be different sized clusters all stuck together like three different females laid their eggs all together ... all of them uniform sized in three different groups suck together. Flathead might be like that too ... accepting eggs from more than one female ... don't know that for sure but remember seeing one nest of flathead eggs that had two different sized eggs in it on each side of the cluster.