Great Lakes Bass Fishing Forum

Shinichi Fukae has stuck his hand down the mouth of a bass before, but generally speaking the bass is fairly docile. It's different with catfish, though, as Shin learned last Sunday morning when he went catfish noodling with Wesley Strader and a few of his acquaintances on Watts Bar Lake.

"I thought it would be fun, and it was," says Strader, who set up the noodling trip after he and Shin missed the cut at the Walmart FLW Tour stop presented by Igloo Coolers on Lake Chickamauga. Participants included Shin and his wife, Miyu; Strader's wife, Stephanie; wildlife officer Chris Combs; and Strader friends Julie and Jake Harrell.