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Re: Going noodling!!!! [Re: Froghunter] #12028661 01/09/17 01:55 AM
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I did this when I was younger, mostly at Eagle Mountain and Lake Worth around boat ramps. Pulled a few mud cats out biggest one was just under 35lbs. Had a 10lb (guessing) blue cat nearly break my finger off.... after some scary moments and finding holes big enough to drive a VW beetle into I decided to stick with the rod and reel.

It definitely gets your blood going!


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Re: Going noodling!!!! [Re: Mark's Fence Repair] #12028780 01/09/17 03:03 AM
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Originally Posted By: Mark's Fence Repair
I heard some guys in Florida they were noodling for grouper. I think that would be awesome! go down there with some scuba gear and noodle up some grouper! I myself have went noodling several times on the Brazos River and particularly in Lake Whitney where there is a lot of rocks. I have never seen a big catfish down there personally I've got a lot of good size live bait but no big catfish I've had a few break the line but I didn't know if it was a diver or a gar or catfish or what. I always catch big catfish at Lake Tawakoni and Cedar Creek but never down that way I think that place is fished out.


You ever heard of moray eels?

Re: Going noodling!!!! [Re: Jim Ford] #12029031 01/09/17 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted By: Jim Ford
Originally Posted By: Mark's Fence Repair
I heard some guys in Florida they were noodling for grouper. I think that would be awesome! go down there with some scuba gear and noodle up some grouper! I myself have went noodling several times on the Brazos River and particularly in Lake Whitney where there is a lot of rocks. I have never seen a big catfish down there personally I've got a lot of good size live bait but no big catfish I've had a few break the line but I didn't know if it was a diver or a gar or catfish or what. I always catch big catfish at Lake Tawakoni and Cedar Creek but never down that way I think that place is fished out.


You ever heard of moray eels?


I had a buddy who used to feed one almost daily, He went out one day during a windy day and was feeding it. He thinks the cloudy water got the eel confused, It bit him in the pinky area. They couldn't get the infection to settle down, eventually he had to have 2 fingers removed and a little part of his hand.

Now the best part, He did go back after he was healed and feed the eel again.

Re: Going noodling!!!! [Re: Froghunter] #12029096 01/09/17 12:55 PM
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water moccasins can bite under water. used to do it in 1950's until this boy dove into a wad of snakes breeding and was dead from bites on neck and head. brrrrrr!


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Re: Going noodling!!!! [Re: Froghunter] #12031576 01/10/17 03:29 PM
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Did this several years ago when I still lived in TN. Never again. I grabbed/it grabbed me, then I got jerked under the water while I was trying to pull it out of the hole. Not very fun.

Re: Going noodling!!!! [Re: K5RCD] #12048278 01/19/17 03:45 AM
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Originally Posted By: K5RCD
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Bahahahaha


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Quote on the wildman" They Said he'd eat the hair off of a man's head when he was hungry
and squeeze the water out of rocks when he was thirsty"
Re: Going noodling!!!! [Re: RedRanger] #12050725 01/20/17 04:09 PM
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Originally Posted By: RedRanger
Originally Posted By: Jim Ford
Originally Posted By: Mark's Fence Repair
I heard some guys in Florida they were noodling for grouper. I think that would be awesome! go down there with some scuba gear and noodle up some grouper! I myself have went noodling several times on the Brazos River and particularly in Lake Whitney where there is a lot of rocks. I have never seen a big catfish down there personally I've got a lot of good size live bait but no big catfish I've had a few break the line but I didn't know if it was a diver or a gar or catfish or what. I always catch big catfish at Lake Tawakoni and Cedar Creek but never down that way I think that place is fished out.


You ever heard of moray eels?


I had a buddy who used to feed one almost daily, He went out one day during a windy day and was feeding it. He thinks the cloudy water got the eel confused, It bit him in the pinky area. They couldn't get the infection to settle down, eventually he had to have 2 fingers removed and a little part of his hand.

Now the best part, He did go back after he was healed and feed the eel again.


We were diving a channel edge in The Keys and I saw a moray eyeing my buddy's foot in front of him. I swatted it in the head with my speargun and told my buddy. Don't know if it was actually about to grab the foot, but it sure looked that way. After losing a tug of war with one (the ONLY one) I had ignorantly speared, I'd hate to think about one grabbing my foot and pulling back into the coral..

Re: Going noodling!!!! [Re: Froghunter] #12050776 01/20/17 04:40 PM
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Jim, I've caught moray eels on rod & reel while fishing out of Ensenada, Baja California. They are STRONG! Something tells me you'd lose that particular tug-of-war that you describe.


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Re: Going noodling!!!! [Re: Froghunter] #12051705 01/21/17 02:14 AM
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We do it every year in May, June and July on eagle mountain and lake worth it's a blast.


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Re: Going noodling!!!! [Re: Froghunter] #12084744 02/09/17 02:36 AM
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Here is one I got

Re: Going noodling!!!! [Re: Froghunter] #12084747 02/09/17 02:37 AM
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And another

Re: Going noodling!!!! [Re: Wildman of the navidad] #12086223 02/10/17 12:56 AM
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Originally Posted By: Wildman of the navidad
Originally Posted By: K5RCD
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Heard they always swallow head first.



Bahahahaha

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