I'm thinking that it's time out time for me.

[JCricket]

I am taking my 13 year old sone to hunters safety course in June. We are hoping to do some pheasant and goose hunting this fall.
Maybe next we'll we'll see if we can do some antelope or deer.

[piece-itpete]

Originally Posted by bobabode

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I'm sure some would say here that it's an improvement as we leftys are numb from the neck up.

LMAO!!

Pete

[HatchetJack]

Not hunting so much anymore either. It's tough on an old man to sit in a
pine tree with damp cold 30 mph winds whipping around.

About 6 weeks ago an old timer took me out on his pontoon boat and showed
me how to catch monster catfish on noodles. So far I have caught a few in
the 10-35lb range. 2 weeks ago I had a couple on that would have went 50lbs
plus but could not get them in. Got them up to the boat and they started
rolling and straightened out the 4 o circle hooks.

Noodle fishing is basically just jug fishing but using a 12" section of foam pool noodle
instead of the jugs. Using cut bait and live bluegills for bait. It's a blast
and easy to just to sit back and watch about 20 of them.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by JJIII

Can't say as I blame you. The name calling, the refusal to accept the possibility of being wrong in a position, the refusal to even look at other viewpoints, etc. make the music thread the best one here at this moment. It's kind of sad really. There are a lot of highly intelligent and well spoken people here and the civil exchange of ideas is food for the brain. Right now it seems some are content with eating the same grilled cheese sandwich day after day after day.

I hope it gets better.

Certainly not my finest moment contributing to some of it. First amendment notwithstanding.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by HatchetJack

Not hunting so much anymore either. It's tough on an old man to sit in a
pine tree with damp cold 30 mph winds whipping around.

About 6 weeks ago an old timer took me out on his pontoon boat and showed
me how to catch monster catfish on noodles. So far I have caught a few in
the 10-35lb range. 2 weeks ago I had a couple on that would have went 50lbs
plus but could not get them in. Got them up to the boat and they started
rolling and straightened out the 4 o circle hooks.

Noodle fishing is basically just jug fishing but using a 12" section of foam pool noodle
instead of the jugs. Using cut bait and live bluegills for bait. It's a blast
and easy to just to sit back and watch about 20 of them.

The last time I went jug fishing, about 10 years ago, was in a farm pond. We went down there the first thing in the morning, and all of the jugs except one were on one side of the pond, and the other was on the opposite bank.

Anyway, once we positioned the boat, I was pulling this jug out of the moss and looking at what I thought was the maw of a nice cat. Turned out to be a nasty assed snapping turd the size of a five gallon bucket, and he wasn't very friendly.

I've taken a dim view of 9MM ball every since that day. I probably shot that bastard 2 or 3 times, and when we came back for him a couple of hours later, he was still alive.

I hate snapping turds, almost as much as I hate water mocs.

Chas

[bobabode]

Pretty sure out here jugging'll get you a huge fine and jail unless it's done with a commercial license. Don't know how it works in other states. Used to be two rods, single hooks only. Now I believe that it's one except for some trash species. Catchin' blues or flatheads are one rod one hook the last I checked. Fresh water regs of course.

The ocean regs for rockcod and such still allow multi gang set ups but draggin' rock cod up fom 200-400 feet is probably like dragging a deer thru the underbrush a mile. Screw that I'll just head down to the supermarket at my age. Crankin' a 4/0 Penn wide with a 2.4 gear ratio is just so much manual labor although the pressure change makes 'em float the last hundred feet you still gotta reel them to the boat.

Biggest Bluecat that I've caught was 30-32 pounds in a city park lake. Sucker was gettin' fat on a diet of bread and ducklings. I threw that mangy sucker back. It had fin rot all around. I'll bet those cats on the Mississippi or the Lake of the Ozarks are a different story though.

[Wasillaguy]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Pretty sure out here jugging'll get you a huge fine and jail unless it's done with a commercial license. Don't know how it works in other states. Used to be two rods, single hooks only. Now I believe that it's one except for some trash species. Catchin' blues or flatheads are one rod one hook the last I checked. Fresh water regs of course.

The ocean regs for rockcod and such still allow multi gang set ups but draggin' rock cod up fom 200-400 feet is probably like dragging a deer thru the underbrush a mile. Screw that I'll just head down to the supermarket at my age. Crankin' a 4/0 Penn wide with a 2.4 gear ratio is just so much manual labor although the pressure change makes 'em float the last hundred feet you still gotta reel them to the boat.

Biggest Bluecat that I've caught was 30-32 pounds in a city park lake. Sucker was gettin' fat on a diet of bread and ducklings. I threw that mangy sucker back. It had fin rot all around. I'll bet those cats on the Mississippi or the Lake of the Ozarks are a different story though.

I know for a lot of years you weren't supposed to eat anything south of the Missouri river due to the dioxin contamination on the Meramac.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Pretty sure out here jugging'll get you a huge fine and jail unless it's done with a commercial license. Don't know how it works in other states. Used to be two rods, single hooks only. Now I believe that it's one except for some trash species. Catchin' blues or flatheads are one rod one hook the last I checked. Fresh water regs of course.

The ocean regs for rockcod and such still allow multi gang set ups but draggin' rock cod up fom 200-400 feet is probably like dragging a deer thru the underbrush a mile. Screw that I'll just head down to the supermarket at my age. Crankin' a 4/0 Penn wide with a 2.4 gear ratio is just so much manual labor although the pressure change makes 'em float the last hundred feet you still gotta reel them to the boat.

Biggest Bluecat that I've caught was 30-32 pounds in a city park lake. Sucker was gettin' fat on a diet of bread and ducklings. I threw that mangy sucker back. It had fin rot all around. I'll bet those cats on the Mississippi or the Lake of the Ozarks are a different story though.

You can still jug fish around here, but you have to secure your jugs or stay with them, put your name and address on them, I don't much fool with 'em.

Never was too much into catfish. Sometimes they taste OK, other times they taste like a fish. And the bigger they get, the nastier they taste, or that's the conclusion I've come to.

Chas

[wgrr]

Originally Posted by HatchetJack

Not hunting so much anymore either. It's tough on an old man to sit in a
pine tree with damp cold 30 mph winds whipping around.

About 6 weeks ago an old timer took me out on his pontoon boat and showed
me how to catch monster catfish on noodles. So far I have caught a few in
the 10-35lb range. 2 weeks ago I had a couple on that would have went 50lbs
plus but could not get them in. Got them up to the boat and they started
rolling and straightened out the 4 o circle hooks.

Noodle fishing is basically just jug fishing but using a 12" section of foam pool noodle
instead of the jugs. Using cut bait and live bluegills for bait. It's a blast
and easy to just to sit back and watch about 20 of them.

Interesting, put some lines out yesterday and used empty milk jugs for floats. If you say you noodled for catfish around these here parts, it means you were wading in the water,sticking your arm into holes under water to pull out monster catfish when they bite down on your hand. Another favorite is to go to a lock and dam on the Arkansas river and use deep sea poles to snag huge catfish.

[wgrr]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Pretty sure out here jugging'll get you a huge fine and jail unless it's done with a commercial license. Don't know how it works in other states. Used to be two rods, single hooks only. Now I believe that it's one except for some trash species. Catchin' blues or flatheads are one rod one hook the last I checked. Fresh water regs of course.

The ocean regs for rockcod and such still allow multi gang set ups but draggin' rock cod up fom 200-400 feet is probably like dragging a deer thru the underbrush a mile. Screw that I'll just head down to the supermarket at my age. Crankin' a 4/0 Penn wide with a 2.4 gear ratio is just so much manual labor although the pressure change makes 'em float the last hundred feet you still gotta reel them to the boat.

Biggest Bluecat that I've caught was 30-32 pounds in a city park lake. Sucker was gettin' fat on a diet of bread and ducklings. I threw that mangy sucker back. It had fin rot all around. I'll bet those cats on the Mississippi or the Lake of the Ozarks are a different story though.

We have many lakes here in the Ozarks. Some are huge. The trout fishing below the dams is some of the finest in the world. Until a few years ago the world record brownie was caught in the Little Red river, below the dam,
in Greers Ferry, Arkansas. It was around 40 pounds.

I prefer the catfish I catch out of the small lake Fayetteville were I have a boat docked. It is a couple miles from my house. Every year we have a huge fish fry to eat up all the fish we catch. We build a big pit out of concrete blocks, build a charcoal fire, put large cast iron skillets on the hot coals full of oil, and put out the breading. You dredge the fish, coat it, and fry it. We have another section with grates to cook corn on the cob with the husk on that has been soaked in water. After it is cooked you shuck it and stick it into large tubes of real butter. It don't get any better than that.