"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.

Tom G.

"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.

Tom G wrote:

"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...

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.

Tom G.



At lake of the Ozarks I have seem place that had catfish up to 100 lbs
they catch on the bluffs.

Sorry for the cut and paste that follows. But this was easy to find.
From
http://www.missourigameandfish.com/f.../mo_aa083204a/
The largest of our Big Three species is the blue catfish. Back when the
big rivers ran wild, blue cats were probably even bigger. Historical
records and anecdotal evidence appear to support such a claim. In his
book, Steamboating: 65 Years on Missouri's Rivers, a boat pilot named
William Heckman wrote of a giant 315-pound blue catfish that was
reportedly taken from the Missouri River in Gasconade County just after
the Civil War. State archives contain an 1879 shipping invoice for a
150-pound blue catfish purchased at a St. Louis fish market.

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I think that the big rivers dont have so many big ones anymore. Due to
all the barge traffic and dredging..

Capt Jack R..