Re: NANFA-- noodling for flatheads

Bob Bock (bockhouse_at_earthlink.net)
Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:36:32 -0500

Some of those flatheads grow so big that I'd be afraid that I wouldn't have
them for dinner, but that it would be the other way 'round.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Scharpf" <ichthos_at_charm.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 9:41 AM
Subject: NANFA-- noodling for flatheads

> Dave Littlehale asked:
>
> > There is a little paragraph on the end about "noodling for flatheads".
> > Interesting stuff. "Tennessee anglers who noodle for flatheads hiding
in
> > cavities in the bank have been known to dispense with the rope and use
their
> > arms to reach directly into the fish's mouth."
> >
> > Any TN people care to shed some light on this? Like, why?
>
> Okay, I'm not from TN (my wife is, sorta), but I've read that noodling
"can
> allow harvest of large flathead catfish that may not be vulnerable to
> harvest by conventional angling. Perceptions that hand grappling is not
> 'sporting' reside primarily among individuals who may not have
participated
> in the fishery" (Jackson, 1999, "Flathead catfish: biology, fisheries and
> management") from the book _Catfish 2000_.
>
> Another reason for noodling is that it's cheap. No bait! No rods and
reels!
>
> I've heard that people noodle for brown trout, too.
>
> Chris Scharpf
> Baltimore
>
>
>
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