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Nice blue cat

The one we had to go a mile for.

Some of the cats we caught

The big ones are in the back.

More pics

When we go to visit my parents up in Arkansas we do this on Lake Dardanelle. The Arkansas river runs through it. We run around 20 noodles at 8 ft deep. In about 2 hours we can have 30+ blue cats all off of 'all beef' hotdogs. My wife and old man get a kick out of watching the noodle go up and down. It is a blast for the whole family.

wanna have some fun?
Go run noodles for alligator gar.
BTW the noodles are 5 feet of bamboo attached to a 5 gal water bottle. whole mullet for bait.

I've run them for alligator gar in freshwater city.....It is really fun. Like you said, 6 inch mullet with a big honking circle hook. The cool thing is the gar usually don't swallow the hook. You can get it back.

I am going to go run them for gar right outside of rockefeller (Gulf of mexico). I want to see how big of a gar that I can catch! I will post pics

We use 10 to 15 inch mullet on with a leader ran up through the whole length of the mullet , with a double hook on the bottom . How do you rig yours and how do you get the hook back with out operating ??

Headed their at the end of the month hope for the same results. Did you better in shallow water or in deeper water?

I found when using a circle hook when the gar swallows the bait he doesn't get hooked. You can just pull on the line and the hook comes right out of his belly...Weird I know. I probably caught about 20 needle nose gar at Toledo Bend. I pulled the hook right back out on over a dozen. When I did hook them It was in the beak.

I had to keep resetting, but I did best around deep points right adjacent to flats. The point I am talking about is the one on the southside of the cove going toward the dam. It is more of a rounded point. If you set on this point, on a southwest wind your noodles will drift into the cove you are staying on, therefore you won't have to chase the ones around that don't catch.

Right around the mouth of the cove where the camps are at South Toledo Bend State Park there is a flat.....The water might come up to around 6-8' right now. I think I caught some off of this flat as well.

to you need a special license to noodle fish, or is it coveered in your basic fishing license