Geesh Phil. You should have headed down south to do "noodling". Those crazy
cajuns will jump in the muddy rivers and jam there arm in crevaces in the
river bank and wriggle there fingers around waiting for big cat fish to
grab ahold of it and then they pull 'em out. Sometimes they actually get a
cat instead of a snake, or whatever.

Brad


At 04:43 PM 11/24/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Brad,
>
>Speaking of your fishing from the bottom of the lake rather than the top, we
>used to go swimming at an old gravel pit that had been made into a public
>swimming pool sort of thing.  A little dangerous, now that I think of it
>since the thing was likely more than a hundred feet to the bottom.  However,
>they had a few fish in the thing, too, and the water was very clear for a
>good ten feet deep.  I would swim around and try and sneak up on the fish in
>order to catch one by hand.  Sure.  In a pig's eye.  Finally one day I
>almost caught one but it was a blue gil and his comb running down his spine
>stuck me but good.  I gave up that kind of fishing after that.
>
>Phil.

Brad

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