New Report.. Check This Out..

[JimDicken]

We have a new reporter for Chicamauga Lake in Tennessee. He does an excellent job and has a new video..
"Girls Gone Grabblin" (Also known as Noodlin to Kentuckians) There is a sample picture on the new Chicamauga Report.

[Fishhead]

That is just too cool!! Makes me want to do some grapplin myself!

[Guest Author]

That is some Crazy Footage, Some Pretty young ladies as well.

[yogio]

Now thats my kind of redneck gals. I'd even settle for one of the catfish.

[Bonefish]

My grandfather would have been proud. He was one of fist "spoggers" in Kentucky to catch cat fish from under rocks, in logs and under ledges. It was first called "spogging", then they started calling it "noodlin." A "spoge hook" was used which was a home made curved hook on a 5 foot wooden handle. This wood handle was used to "feel" for the cats in their nets as well as for a walking stick. Once the cat is found, the hook end would be used to "pen" the cat to the top of the rock, ledge or log to be pulled in arm's length of the spogger. The wooden handle had marks cut on the same side as the hook's point so the distance to cat could be measured when working under water. Spoggers would never roll their long sleeve shirts up to prevent being trap underwater. Back in the 40's people used the term "noodlin" for catching turtles under stream roots and such. Back then it was illegal to harvest cat this way and he had a life-long feud with the local gamewarden trying to catch him. It was a very interesting skill to watch.