Talk about fish stories..what the hell is in the water?
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Apr 16, 2008 07:53 pm Noize and I live a few miles from grain silo's just off the Minnesota River, which leads to the ol' Mississippi...barges are always being filled with grain, and grain blowover is always in the water...over the years that section of river has been a fun place to sport fish to see which of us drunken dumbasses (in general, not Noize and I) can pull in the biggest catfish...a couple times I have pulled in 30 pounders, they are all big there.
Not that damn big though...and I'd never eat one of those bottom feeders.
WaltChief Cook and Bottle WasherMember
Since: May 10, 2002
Apr 16, 2008 09:22 pm Oh yea, big sport in the south. History channel has been airing groups of folks who dive under the water and feel around for these things. They cram their arm down their throats and out their gills and pull them out bare handed. All in muddy water you can't even see in. I'm waitin for one of those prehistoric monsters to come up with the fishermans feet hanging out of it's mouth; sayin:
Shazaaam! Lookie what I done did latch onta! Suprise, suprise, suprise!
TadpuiI am not a crook's headMember
Since: Mar 14, 2003
Apr 17, 2008 10:25 am Yeah that's called noodling. There's a pretty entertaining documentary out there called Okie Noodling. The Flaming Lips did the soundtrack to it, and its a somewhat entertaining-yet-depressing look into the lives of those guys who are serious about competetive noodling. Some of them are to the point to where they get mad at their kids for spending time studying and doing homework because it takes away from their noodling time...sheesh!
But wow, a 67 pounder!?! That's pretty damn big.
Near my hometown in Oklahoma there's a dam near Copan Lake. Below that dam is a deep breakwater that tends to trap and concentrate fish because only the top few inches of the water can escape. so those bottom feeding fish like catfish get trapped in there and have nothing to do but eat. A guy I used to deliver pizza with just lived to go to the dam every weekend and fish. He had a book of pictures of himself with all of these insanely large catfish, as long as he was tall. We had a great fish fry at his house one day.
Too bad catfish tastes like dirt that's been ****** by a hobo, or else it would have been great!
Apr 17, 2008 11:04 am holy ****!
JDODBrother Number OneMember
Since: Jan 22, 2008
Apr 17, 2008 11:15 am Bloody'ell you could make a giant pot of curry out of that.
Apr 17, 2008 04:53 pm So Nessie could have been a catfish.
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Apr 17, 2008 08:49 pm Yep, catfishin was a lot of fun years ago. I haven't been in a long time. I used to fish on the St. Croix with some friends and we would go out on Friday evening after work and just fish through the weekend. Used to pull in some pretty impressive cats around the islands north of Hudson and St. Croix. Then come ashore and give them away to the fish mongers.
And ya, like dB stated. Beer had a big part in the sport back then.
WaltChief Cook and Bottle WasherMember
Since: May 10, 2002
Apr 18, 2008 12:09 am Never really liked even catching them. Leave the line out. Yank it in like a spare tire. Now that thing in the above post might be interesting. Like a semi-truck! My daughter did drag in a dog-fish once. Damn fresh water shark chased them around till I stapled it's wart to the bottom of the boat with a hunting knife. It was still floppin around. Uglier than an Asian Snake Head. And eating the things just never appealed to me. I tried one, lived through it. Couldn't get the picture of the thing out of my mind the whole time. One of those things that would probably taste better bought in a grocery store and never seen live.
Apr 18, 2008 09:25 am
man wars: snake vs gator. who can eat who? = death
