"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:08:54 GMT, "Tom G"
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"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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I was watching that video Fisherdude posted yesterday again - a couple
of those fish have got to be in the 30/35 pound range.

However, I always thought noodlin' was using a really long cane pole -
like 12 - 15 feet long to get a way out of the shore. The noodlin'
name came from the whippy length of the cane pole.

I can't wait to get to SC this summer and do some real cat fishin' -
they just don't have cats like that up here.

Where is "up North"? There was a 41, 44, 45, 48, and 55 pound flathead
catfish taken (and released) out of the hole in front of my place on the
Rock River. Illinois, just 5 miles South of the Wisconsin line. And a
little South of here, the Sterling/Rock Falls, IL. dam is famous as a
fishery for these size fish.

Very familiar with that area in fact.

Up North is New England - Connecticut specifically, land of nutmeg,
unfunded state pensions and a Democrat controlled Legislature who seem
to believe that the only part of the state that exists is west of the
Connecticut River.

They must be transplants from Long Island, where people think "upstate" is
anything North of Yonkers.