Off topic question

[GunClick Rick]

Anybody here know anything about Surf fishin poles?Went to a garage sale about a month ago with my cousin as they had some old boat oars he wanted.The next thing we know they were givin stuff away(movin).My cousin got a handfull of old wooden shotgun cleaning rods and they gave me a couple of very long bamboo surf poles.I have seen people use them but never have myself.They look hand made(?) with roping on the grips and a place to put the reels that look to me hand threaded on with the roping also.Real good condition.Any type of value in these?How the heck do ya get them from one place to another?I'd give them to someone that could use them..

[Ozark Tracker]

here in Arkansas and Oklahoma, they are popular below the dams for catfishin,  tie a hook on with a leader below it and about 5 ounces of weight and throw it right up against the dam wall, big cats in there, over in Oklahoma, they also snag spoonbill catfish with em below the dams.

the poles are pretty high priced here, $ 130 to 150 will get you a nice one

[GunClick Rick]

Well i'll be dern~~catfish huh I'd never thunk it..

[Ozark Tracker]

good lookin rods,  they'd get that bait half way across the river looks like. all ya need is one of them winch lookin reels. and lots of heavy line. 

the closer you can get that bait right up next to the dam wall, the more chance you got of gettin the big one.     according to a friend fo mine, he has 4 of em for this time of year,  he ties on an old spark plug to a leader off his hook,  it'll get down in the rocks and as soon as the fish bites and he sets the hook,  the spark plug will break off,  just tie on a new one for the next cast.

he's made a little rack for his little Ford pickup to carry them,  it holds the tips up higher than if they were just resting on the tailgate and keeps them out of the way of any cars or trucks pullin up behind him.

this time of year when we go to Ozark, we'll see several trucks running around with their long fishing poles,  as soon as they open the dam down there on the Arkansas river, the banks will be full with people  catfishing.

[GunClick Rick]

I'd like to see some of that :)May have to go to the lake and try it here although ours don't get real big.I seen them noodlin on tv the other day :DThem cats are bigger than i am,he'd be the one noodlin and i'd be the noodle

[Ozark Tracker]

I've not done much noodling,  an uncle of mine had a big v shaped scar up his upper arm that he got noodling,  snapping turtle probably.  so if I couln't catch it on a line I just left it alone 

I was up on the Grand River once back in the 70's and saw something that I've always remembered,  a kid about 7 or 8 years old noodlin along the rock back,  his dad was up on the bank,  he had a rope tied around the boy's waist and was holding on to it,  when the boy would go under and tug on the rope, the dad would pull him up with a big old catfish on the boys arm.  saw em catch a bunch of fish like that,

I'm not sure today but I would think he'd be arrested.

[GunClick Rick]

Hey! My dad called that swim fishin ???He never cuaght nothin though,i kept poppin up like a bobber

[Ozark Tracker]

what part of California are you in?  do you have many lakes around there

[GunClick Rick]

San Juaquin valley,Visalia,Ca. home of the End of the Trail statue.Lake Kaweah about 20 minutes east,just below Sequoia National forest and Kings Canyon.Yosimite to the north east 2- 3 hours.I'm inbetween Bubba(Fresno) and Buck Owens(Bakersfield) Alan Autry just finished his term as Mayor of Fresno and Bucks Chrystal Palace is in Bakersfield.Fresno is 40 miles north and Buckersfield is about 65 miles south.

[Ozark Tracker]

I remember now that I've seen it,   my wife is from Hanford,  she lived in and around there for 35 years.  her dad was a farm equipment mechanic

she has some friends she talks to out there,  sounds like that area just keeps on growing.

[GunClick Rick]

It's growin but doesn't seem in a good way.Gettin hammered with fees and such.I need to go to Hanford haven't been over there in awhile,go get me an ice cream from that famouse ice cream place.Can't remember the name right now,your wife will probably know.Huge ice cream cones..

[Ozark Tracker]

she says it's Superior Dairy, across from the library and Park,      says it' a good sized scoop.

says she loved gettin ice cream there. 

[GunClick Rick]

AHHH HA~~That's it. Huel Howser did a special on it awhile back,some kind of complete tour thing wher ya hop on a train from bakersfield i think,come into Hanford see an old hotel that some lady has kept up,then go to a place in the middle of nowhere that has a japenes garden and museum and end up at Superior Ice Cream,get back on the train back to Bakersfield.They had a bunch of school kids at the time.I would love to go do that tour..

[Ozark Tracker]

Jackie wonders if it was the Victoria or Victorian?  is it where you eat there too.  she says she worked there one summer, but got on at Safeway and quit.

[GunClick Rick]

Can't remember the name but i think it still had some of the orginal furniture upstairs.Been awhile since seein that show.I watch Huell all the time on Californias Gold program,you guys get it where your at?

It's getting very costly to live here,they hit me and 8999 others with flood pain stuff and we are not in a flood plain.Came from Fema and Homeland security,vehicle fee went way up.You don'y pay they forclose.I'll never buy a new home again..

[Ozark Tracker]

We've had several Californian's move here over the last few years,  said they were really happy to get away from California,  they said the property taxes had gone up the last few years and everything had just gotten out of control. 
A coupla of family's that I know were really able to cash in on selling out there when the price was high.  I know one family who bought 750 acres and built 2 houses on it for what they got for a house in Southern California.

[GunClick Rick]

For your wife Ozark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcXkD7EO-cE&feature=related

I think that place was Chinese Alley..

[Ozark Tracker]

Thanks for the link,  the wife enjoyed takin me on a tour of Hanford, 

[GunClick Rick]

I lived in Armona when i was 5.Thats when i learned what an electric fence was just after eating a popscicle

:oWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I ain't been back~~

[Ozark Tracker]

I know what ya mean about them electric fences,  we used to have a lot of em out in the winter, fencing in the winter wheat,   


Jackie says do you know  if they still have Raven jerky  or Raven Seasonin salt there in Armona