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Patty |
Catfishing, Colorado-style
Jun 27 2006, 2:28 PM EDT
My hat's off to anyone who can catch a catfish in this manner. My father, a native of Iowa, taught us a far less strenuous (you could even say flat-out lazy) method. We'd take a long cotton string line (maybe 100+ feet long -- hard to remember) with multiple hooks spaced out along it and baited with raw chicken livers, attach a large smooth stone to one end, tether the other end onto a stick buried in the riverbank and then toss the line into the river. Go back to camp, have a good night's sleep, and then return in the morning to pull up the line onto the bank (this was the Snake River, if memory serves). You could pretty much guarantee you'd pull in several whoppers. Terribly, terribly exciting as a kid to be the designated line-puller. Low on finesse, certainly, but full-proof.
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1. RE: Catfishing, Colorado-style
Oct 29 2007, 11:07 PM EDT
I have some 550 cord and some hooks, on loops of heavy line, in my heavy duty survival kit for just this reason. In many places fishing is one of the easy ways to get good food outside. Though I do believe the practice is technically illegal in most places. (Though food is one of the last things on a survival priority list, You will die of exposure or dehydration a long time before you die of starvation.)
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2. RE: Catfishing, Colorado-style
Nov 29 2007, 11:24 AM EST
ANYTIME YOU CAN GO FISHING AND ENJOY THE GREAT OUTDOORS LIFE IS GOOD. I LIVE IN OKLAHOMA AND HAVE NOODLED FOR SEVERAL YEARS. TROTLINES ARE GREAT FOR CATCHING CATFISH. THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT THE NATIVE TRADITION OF NOODLING BAREHANDED THAT MAKES MY BLOOD START TO BOIL EVEN WHEN I THINK ABOUT IT IN THE DEAD OF WINTER.
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3. RE: Catfishing, Colorado-style
Jan 7 2009, 12:30 PM EST
Down here in the deep South putting out a line with hooks for the bait is known as "running a trot line."
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