Man Catches 121-Pound Catfish

[windansea]

http://www.wftv.com/news/2778923/detail.html

[AngryAmish]

1. Big fish

What kind of lure/bait is used for blue cats?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

5. Live shad...

Live Trout, Live bluegills and secret stinkbait. Generally.

Sometimes cut shad, too. Not to mention chumming, in some cases.

I don't think he "noodled" that big fella. Noodling is catching them with your bare hands. That thing would just drown you in a flash.

[yellowcanine]

6. You don't want to "noodle" a catfish of any size

I don't know about blue catfish but a lot of catfish have spines in their dorsal fins that can give one a nasty puncture wound. Noodlig is definately not a good idea.

[GOPisEvil]

8. That's why it is illegal, except in Oklahoma.

There's been a documentary made on this called Okie Noodling. It's supposed to be very good.

[guitar man]

24. I've never seen it

I've got to check it out.

I haven't been noodling since I was a teenager. I quit after a friend that was noodling with me stuck his hand in a hole along the bank looking for a channel cat and wound up getting bit by a beaver.It was a real bummer!

[jmowreader]

9. The spines are also in the pectoral fins

Added bonus: ictalurids are all venomous.

I don't know if this guy knows it yet, but the previous rod-and-reel recordholder landed a blue cat that weighed 112 lbs; this cat, which was also caught on rod and reel, is 121 lbs.

[guitar man]

23. That's why you catch them by the lower jaw

if possible,that's what I always went for. Makes it hard for them to fin you.Still might get nailed every once in a while

[commander bunnypants]

2. I got the hush puppies and cole slaw

mmmmmm. good eats


DDQM

[Kellanved]

13. Kuno in memoriam

He was all for puppies ;-) (no "hush")

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/25/1059084215575.html

Alas he was a small one compared to this monster.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. What's needed next:

A 6ft circumfrence Hush Puppy and a 55 gallon kit drum of cole slaw. ;-)

[kayell]

4. NOOOOOOOOOOOooooooo!

Throw it back, Thats Edward Bloom!

[windansea]

7. LOL n/t

[PerpetualWar]

10. Yowsa! You'd need a crane to reel that in!!

[bigwillq]

11. Talk about a "Big Fish"

Good for him. Will they eat it or save it as a prize?

[Bertha Venation]

12. I should've known better than to hope for C/R on this one.

:cry:
Mofo assholes.

[AngryAmish]

14. I catch and release too

But if I caught that bad boy, I'm keeping it.

*no catch & release for Chicago Salmon

[Baclava]

15. You betcha...

I lived in Alaska for 3 years and always released those 5lb rainbows...but the salmon (reds and silvers) were FOOD.

[Bertha Venation]

18. baclava & angry amish...

I was referring mainly to the fish's obvious age. An animal like that deserves to live out its natural life.

[Baclava]

16. No worries mate...

It's still alive...in a fisheries exhibit...I think.

[windansea]

17. really? n/t

[Osiris]

19. Woah! They caught Rush Limbaugh!

Wait...that fish needs to gain 5345345345 pounds before it's Rush.

[lazarus]

20. damnation

that beats the 8 pounder I caught out back of my uncle's a few years ago.

[TheMightyFavog]

21. WOW!!!

If I had caught that big fish, it would be going up on the wall!

[Lostmessage]

22. Did they fish that out of the lake?

I weigh about 20 pounds more then that fish and it's doesn't look like it weighs almost as much as I do.

[jpgray]

25. General Sherman? (nt)

[VOX]

26. Shouldn't fish near Chernobyl...

:evilgrin: