130lb World Record Blue Catfish Caught (video)

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[OneVike]

Rod & Reel? ...if you have to I guess.
Back home we noodle catfish that size for alligator bait. :)

Yeah, and your real name is Amos Moses, named after a man of the cloth.

And when Amos Moses was a boy his daddy'd use him for alligator bait.

Amos Moses by Jerry Reed

Play song from iLike.com The Essential Jerry Reed - 1982 - 2:17 Listen on: iLike - Rhapsody - Pandora

Here are the lyrics to "Amos Moses"-----

Now Amos Moses was a Cajun
He lived by his self in the swamp

He hunted alligator for livin'
He just knocked em' in the head with a stump
Louisiana law gonna get you Amos
It ain't legal huntin' alligators down in the swamp boy
Now everybody blamed his old man For makin' him mean as a snake
When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy'd use him for alligator bait
Tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp
Alligator bait in the Louisiana bayou

Chorus

About forty-five minutes south of Thibadoux Louisiana
Lived a cat named Doc Milsap and his pretty wife Hanna
Well they raised up a son that could eat up his weight in groceries
Named him after a man of the cloth
Called him Amos Moses
Everybody in south Louisiana Said Amos was a helluva man
He could trap the biggest and meanest alligator and just use one hand
That's all he got left cause a alligator bit it
Left arm gone clean up to the elbow

Well the sheriff caught wind of Amos
In the swamp trappin alligator skins
That sheriff went lookin for Amos
Boy you know he never come out again
I wonder where the Louisiana sheriff went to
You can sure get lost in the Louisiana bayou
Chorus

[TexasCajun]

Thank you, I was going to look it up but busy multitasking at work.

Love that song & Jerry Reed.

[calex59]

Sometimes, and I saw this happen with one of my uncles(who happened to be an old gold miner, in CA),the cap blows out of the stick without setting the dynamite off. That is why they pack mud and other stuff behind it when they blow rocks. I saw my Uncle try to blow some sumps(he had a license for explosives)and the cap kept blowing out of the top. Perhaps that is what was going on with your stuff? Just a thought.

[calex59]

Post number 43, sumps=stumps:)

[TStro]

My dad had a pic of a 150 pounder caught (dynamited) in the Kentucky River near Saldee, KY in the early 1900’s. It had drowned 3 men noodling under a ledge at a bend. Its head was against the bench of a buckboard and its tail dragged the ground. Don’t know where the pic wound up.

[calex59]

As far as I am concerned, catfish are absolutely the best fish in the world for eating. Some people don’t agree but that’s what makes the world go ‘round, differences of opinion.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Doomonyou]

That would have been fun to catch noodlin'.

[csense]

Almost as big as a Shelby Cobra. Looks like one too...

[Neoliberalnot]

One of my old favorites and Jerry Reed also one likeable guy and actor.

[Neoliberalnot]

Dad had experience with dynamite and had blasted 100s of stumps. This was a first attempt at fish. Far as we could tell, the caps never went off in the pond except for the two that did set the dynamite off.

[Osage Orange]

No worries......Most creeks around here are called cricks. Ha!

Wooden, antler, and bone hooks....

The Anasazi made a lot of tools...Some we still have no idea what they were made for. They had elaborate cliff side homes, and large farming operations...at Mesa Verde.

Others in the South West...appeared to be pretty smart folks.

http://www.angelfire.com/indie/anna_jones1/lost_dagger.html

Many tribes in the Great Lakes area...were fairly civilized, made treaties among other tribal nations and cooperated together for the common good.

Interesting stuff...if you take the time.

Megwetch nican!!

[OneVike]

Thanks for the info. I really was going from ignorance I will admit. So I will do some checking and educate myself so in the future I am not caught off kilter by my remarks.

It would seem from your comment that the tribes which stayed year to year in one area (Hopi, Micmac, Chippewa, Cayuga, Mohawk, and Pequot etc. etc.) were more likely to have learned how to become more advanced in their technology. Where as the Indian nations who were more nomadic (plains Indians like the Shawnee, Cherokee, Shoshone, Sioux etc. etc.) suffered more or less from the backwoods effect of not being advanced in their technological thinking.

Which goes along by what you say as for the South Western tribes where it was much too hot so they settled into adapting, or the very Northern tribes where it was much too cold. Where as the Plains and California tribes were nomadic and depended upon following the food, ie. buffalo, dear atc. etc.

Does that makes sense to you, or am I just blowing a bunch of peace pipe smoke...LOL

[Osage Orange]

Makes a lot of sense.....

Apache Indians...were way different than Potawatomie's....

And frankly still are....

Same with the Lakota, and let's say the Osage.

Although the Osage just happened upon land that had millions of barrels of oil under it.

Anyway.....lot of mis-info and thought out there. Perpetuated by the media........

I still get questions from people that think there's lot's of teepee's here in OK. Ha!!

Best FRegards,

[OneVike]

Thanks again for increasing my knowledge of the American Indians.

FRegards to you to my FRiend.