Mudcats

[Isomade]

My new favorite show on the History channel.

[Commercialfarmer]

I watched it till 2 a.m. last Saturday night.

I noodled a few times when I was young but after a day of two near incidents (one a beaver, second a snake), I'm done.

[Isomade]

I watched it till 2 a.m. last Saturday night.

I noodled a few times when I was young but after a day of two near incidents (one a beaver, second a snake), I'm done.

I've seen two guy that had lost fingers to beaver while noodling. I'm out.

[JSCATTLE]

Isomade I was gonna ask you if your name was kat daddy ..

[Isomade]

Isomade I was gonna ask you if your name was kat daddy ..

No but I can rember being that small before my growth spurt.

[JSCATTLE]

Those guys are crazy . I'm not sticking my hand in a hole under water . Do ya ll have snapping turtles ? I've caught them up to 80 pounds . They can take your hand off at your wrist .

[Isomade]

Those guys are crazy . I'm not sticking my hand in a hole under water . Do ya ll have snapping turtles ? I've caught them up to 80 pounds . They can take your hand off at your wrist .

Ain't no way in heII I'm doing that. Did you see Kat Daddy crawl into that hole where his shoulders would barely fit, and inch all the way down till his feet disappeared, then pull out a 46 pound cat? Just crazy.

[highgrit]

Never tried noodlling but sticking your hand in a hole ain't to smart. I use to dive foreign lobster and they live in holes with eel's. Been bit more than once.

[plumber_greg]

I've done it a lot. Not for 20 years tho'. You want a rush, just reach in a hole and stick your forearm in a 25 lb. flathead and pull it out. Don't have cable,so don't watch the show, but the rule up here was, feel scales-give up, probably a carp, feel slick- grab it. feel fur-leave.
The hardest part was training yourself when the blues were under the rocks laying eggs. They would bite your fingers,and if you jerked back it felt like a million baby razor bladed were cutting your fingers. The trick was to let her bite and just grab. When I was a kid we all had red sore fingers the first 2 weeks of June. It was a lot of fun.
One time tho', we had a seine around a stump and thought we had the worlds biggest fish. It would knock us down when it hit the net, and we were trying to wrap it up. It ended up being 2 very mad beavers. When we got them to the bank, still thought they were fish, they just laid down and sulled. gs

[JSCATTLE]

Those guys are crazy . I'm not sticking my hand in a hole under water . Do ya ll have snapping turtles ? I've caught them up to 80 pounds . They can take your hand off at your wrist .

Ain't no way in heII I'm doing that. Did you see Kat Daddy crawl into that hole where his shoulders would barely fit, and inch all the way down till his feet disappeared, then pull out a 46 pound cat? Just crazy.

Yea at the grave yard . He wiggled until just his feet were sticking out . I really don't know if I could hold my breath that long .

[Red Bull Breeder]

Bet you could do better than you think with your head under water.

[hooknline]

I've got an uncle that died noodling. Blacked out trying to get a monster cat and he drowned.
My moms side of the family are all from ok originally and went west during the depression and dust bowl. I got to hear a lot of stories about noodling old reservoirs and road banks that had been flooded.
I'd do it a few times. Can't be any worse than lobstering or conch diving.
Now conch diving, that's another story.

[HOSS]

They say that a snapper will go into the hole head first and lay that way so you feel their tail or shell first and they can't bite you.......I ain't taking chances. I have seen some big, ugly snappers as big as a washtub. I ain't putting my hands ANYWHERE near those prehistoric critters.

[john250]

They say that a snapper will go into the hole head first and lay that way so you feel their tail or shell first and they can't bite you.......I ain't taking chances. I have seen some big, ugly snappers as big as a washtub. I ain't putting my hands ANYWHERE near those prehistoric critters.

I completely agree.

[HOSS]

They say that a snapper will go into the hole head first and lay that way so you feel their tail or shell first and they can't bite you.......I ain't taking chances. I have seen some big, ugly snappers as big as a washtub. I ain't putting my hands ANYWHERE near those prehistoric critters.

I completely agree.

When I was a kid my uncle caught a big ol' snapper out of the Tennessee River. He brought it over to the house and rigged up a stiff wire noose. We took turns standing on it's back and riding it around the yard steering it's head with the wire. It was big enough to walk around with a grown man on it's back. We played with it for a few hours and then turned it loose in the farm pond.