Missing catfish noodle is found years later by beachcombing family
Robyn Bordelon regularly kayak fishes for catfish with noodles. Sometimes the noodles get lost due to floating away or being dragged out of range by a fish.
Imagine her surprise when she received an unknown text from Anthony Broussard advising that he had found one of her noodles. Broussard and his family launched at Sothene’s/Rollover Landing (named after his great grandfather Sothene Broussard). They had gone out to the Gulf to pull the kids on a Hydroslide and decided to do a little beachcombing when they found the noodle. Per LDWF regulations, Bordelon had her noodle tagged with her name, phone number and license information. Broussard kept the noodle and sent Bordelon a text.
Who knows where that noodle has been or the stories it could tell? Giant catfish? Garfish? Moby Dick? We will never know as the heavy nylon line was frayed and broken below the knot on the noodle.
Bordelon believes the noodle has been missing for two to three years and ended up a couple hundred miles from where it was lost. It likely took a trip down the Mississippi River from St. Charles Parish and into the Gulf before washing up near Pecan Island.
“When I saw the noodle on the beach, the tag was very clear as to who it belonged to, so I sent her a message,” Broussard said.
As a sign of typical Cajun hospitality, Broussard packed the noodle in a box surrounded by some OLEM’S Cajun Seafood Boil seasoning and other seasonings made and sold by family members and mailed the noodle to Bordelon.
“That was so nice, I’m not sure how this story could get any better,” Bordelon said.
Bordelon plans to mount the noodle on a piece of driftwood along with a map to memorialize its wild journey.
