This is crazy!!

[ntw0rk]

Noodling! I have heard of it, and seen pics, but since I it illegal, never seen a video... until now!

http://www.weather.com/multimedia/v...ollection=topstory&nav=84&from=wxcenter_video

 

[mxzx440]

thats crazy, i don't think i would like that way of fishing

 

[wheredwhogo?]

cousins do it all the time...yes they are crazy

 

[Django]

Fancy that, something else (with which) I actually have experience.

Noodling goes back hundreds of years, if not further....

Native American tribes employed this (the most primative and organic) method of fishing since (well, maybe even) before recorded history.

I myself have amazed friends and fellow fishermen at my home on Castle Creek (just outside of Aspen, Colorado) when they'd call bullshit before I'd take them down to the river's edge for exorable proof that Django is an accomplished noodler.

Of course, I wasn't noodling for Cats in that part of the country. Cutthroats and other indigenous trout were the quarry there. And I always employed the "catch and release" principle whenever hunting in this manner.... After all we have plenty of foodstuffs at out local store. Why deplete the populations of our beloved wildlife..... For the joy of a kill....? That would be fkn barbaric.

But don't get any ideas about me being a liberal tree hugger... OK, butthole?

D

 

[Deibs]

Seen it before on Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe, fun show to watch.

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/id/3364393246

 

[ntw0rk]

Ok, tree hugger!

 

[Django]

Ok, tree hugger!

WE HAVE A WINNER.....!

D

 

[mxzx440]

so your not coming up to go hunting this year?

 

[Django]

BTW, some friends of mine have described encounters with channel cats that are so big that upon encountering these monsters in the spillways of dams they just about shit (in) their swimtrunks.....

These fish can reach fearsome size.......

If ya don't believe this fish story.... Check this shit out, Mr. Doubting Thomas:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8404622/

or this:

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...ish&um=1&start=1&sa=X&oi=images&ct=image&cd=1

D

 

[Django]

so your not coming up to go hunting this year?

That depends.

To me, the taking of any life is a profoundly solemn thing...... Yet men must eat.

It is not something to gloat over, but to demonstrate a deep respect ... even reverence, for the life that is taken.

Yet some men simply go out and happily destroy defenseless creatures simply for the sake of sport and to satify their impotent need to kill something.. They take photographs, drink beer and proudly strap the bloody carcasses to the hoods of their 4X4s for all to see....... All in a feeble attempt to reinforce their pathetic so-called manhood....

Life must consume life in order to survive, that's a fkn fact. But to revel in the killing like some kind'a bloodthirsty ogre is another thing.

If one takes a life, they should do so with respect and thankfullness to God and to the creature which surrendered its life so that they may live.

The opening scene in "Last of the Mohicans" is an excellent example of the right spirit in which to "hunt"....

That's what I think, anyway......

Aren't ya' glad you asked.....?

D

 

[ntw0rk]

I believe you!

I used to hear those stories when we were at the dam at Strom Thurmond lake in Ga. (back then though, it was called Clark's Hill)

Stories of divers searching for bodies in the river below the dam, and coming up talking about catfish the size of VW Beetles!! (Everything looks bigger in the water)

They get so big, they can't even swim any more, they just lay there and wait for the food to float by.
(I watched a show on Discovery about some humans like that!!)

 

[eddie102870]

That depends.

To me, the taking of any life is a profoundly solemn thing...... Yet men must eat.

It is not something to gloat over, but to demonstrate a deep respect ... even reverence, for the life that is taken.

Yet some men simply go out and happily destroy defenseless creatures simply for the sake of sport and to satify their impotent need to kill something.. They take photographs, drink beer and proudly strap the bloody carcasses to the hoods of their 4X4s for all to see....... All in a feeble attempt to reinforce their pathetic so-called manhood....

Life must consume life in order to survive, that's a fkn fact. But to revel in the killing like some kind'a bloodthirsty ogre is another thing.

If one takes a life, they should do so with respect and thankfullness to God and to the creature which surrendered its life so that they may live.

The opening scene in "Last of the Mohicans" is an excellent example of the right spirit in which to "hunt"....

That's what I think, anyway......

Aren't ya' glad you asked.....?

D

can i have some of that shit your smokin?...lol j/k man i hunt every year eat everything i kill unless its a coyote or bobcat. down south here our population of deer is so overcrowded that the doe to buck ratio is way out of wack. not everyone from the south rides around with the deer on the hood drinking beer. we do take photos if its a nice buck cause these animals arent defenseless. come to alabama and get within bow range of one and you'll see. we use deer meat or venison and folks north or the mason dixon line call it in all types of recipe's no different than eating a cow. you ought to see how they are slaughtered. talk about defenseless. anyway im off the soapbox.