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WestEndAngler
October 5th, 2008, 06:35 PM
So I've read in a few different places and also heard from people who have done this...

They say you have to find areas where there is a shell reef, find the edge where the mud starts and work your hands around and start feeling for no other than Stone Crabs... I was shocked to watch this video where this guy is noodling for Stone Crab and harvesting a good number of claws at that! Anyone done this in West Bay?

here's the video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBZYL4BMp_0
FlatoutFishin
October 5th, 2008, 08:39 PM
Campbells Bayou area along the bank...about 12 years ago. Used the butt of an ugly stick to break the hole open then got the claw. Ended up with quite a few.

Sorry but I can't access youtube here at work, so no comment on the noodling for them.
WestEndAngler
October 5th, 2008, 08:57 PM
I know the feeling of no youtube @ work...
WestEndAngler
October 1st, 2009, 02:53 PM
1 year old post... I'm bumping this b/c this video is BAD *****!!! :rofl:
reeltime
October 1st, 2009, 06:10 PM
Pretty neat.......... My luck i would grab a blue crab.
plugger
October 2nd, 2009, 08:17 AM
Nope. Pretty interesting though. I think I would wear those metal mesh gloves for gripping and cleaning fish to protect my hands from cuts and claws. Would not be a happy thing to get a Vibrio infection digging around in mud with a cut finger.
spektakler
October 2nd, 2009, 08:34 AM
Confederate Reef has a lot of dens up in the shell, especially in the fall. We have played around with dropping our lines with gulp in them. they get cut up pretty good.
jetcraftsman
May 8th, 2012, 10:20 PM
I recall years ago I was walking along the base of the north jetty (on Bolivar) there were 2 men in the water (gulf side) feeling around the rocks. I thought they had lost something. They had a young man with them who was floating and holding an ice chest. I watched them as one of the guys came up with a blue crab - the young man with the ice chest opened the lid and in it went. He shook his had and went back for more. I watched as this continued and thought they really want them crabs. This was before I had ever heard of noodleing or hand fishing.
Texfish
May 16th, 2012, 06:14 PM
I need my digits for counting , no way could I afford to lose one for a crab !
Rollo
May 16th, 2012, 06:26 PM
I need my digits for counting , no way could I afford to lose one for a crab !

So you can keep track of each limit of them trouts you been catching,