Quinte Fishing

Noodling is when a person crawls in neck deep water along a shore line and prods with their hands and feet under logs, rocks etc. When you feel a fish you grab it by the tail or gills and throw it onto shore. You probably would not require a license for this type of fishing since it is hand-to-hand mortal combat between you and the fish. No equipment is involved. Entire families can participate in this fun pastime. Fishing tournaments are for sissy's who want to look pretty and stay dry, in noodling you have to challange the fish on their terms. I would pay money to watch someone noodle. Anyone interested in starting a noodling club?

I know americans do that for "flathead" catfish. some of the guys get nicknames like "nubbins" when they find out that there's a snapping turtle in the hole and not a fish LOL!!! I'm not so sure I'd do that here. might end up grabbing a bowfin instead of a catfish, and in that case, you got big troubles!!!! pitbulls with fins.

Not a wise idea to take a fish without a fishing licence.

An interesting sport this "noodling" wouldn't want to grab hold of one of those old snapping turtles that hang out there. It'd make it tough to wave by to your hand as he swam off with it.

I was out last weekend on Simcoe 35+ks of wind snow and rain 3 to 4 foot waves. Aint no sissy...

Bring on those -20s can't wait to punch some holes in that ice.

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Just one more cast.....yeah right...makes me wish I was there right now.

I've seen this on TV......an episode of Dirty Jobs had this on.

People have been dragged down rivers doing this and returned dead.

I can't picture myself looking under a log or rock in the Bay or somewhere else to grab what hopefully would be a fish. If I had that much nerve, I'd be walking thru the old Duponts fields and wrastlin' a goose for the smoker

....for some reason, I can't see you not needing a licence but Stanley20Footer, please keep us posted on your success.

Cheers

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The fishing was so good........I thought I was here yesterday!

I'm almost sure its not legal to take a fish by hand in Ont.

As a teenager of roughly 13, I caught a brook trout with my hands in a quarry near Napanee, just a short distance out the river road. My cousin and I took turns, with myself lucking out with some oxygen deprived brookie, that we semi trapped with some rocks. I tried another time at Springside Park with some summer splake by a spring discharge pipe, but with no success.

As to anything more serious like say a channel cat...... not my cup of tea....lol. The footage of the folks in the US is quite different for those of us in a more northerly climate. I bet someone has tried it in Manitoba for the big ones (by Canuck standards) that they target there.

Regards
Donald Stokes