Alabama Fishing Plus Catfish Noodling

okay so i went to alabama for a family reunion at my dads lake house fished almost every day and one of the days i caught this turtle...

about 5 minutes after releasing this thing i went noodling with a few guys that go almost everyday and know what there doing we had a pretty good day i got 2 the bigger of the 2 didnt make it onto the boat it was at least 15 pounds a really nice fish i was ticked that it got away so we kept hitting more and more holes and i caught this one pretty decent

after catching that one we were going to there 'honey hole' where they have caught a few 40 pounders and a 55 pounder (btw this was my first time ever noodling) i was exited to go there and hopefully get a big one and then one of the guys went to start the boat and ripped the pull cord and the motor and we had no tools to fix it and the trolling motor was dead... we ended up dragging the boat back to the house over all good day of noodling. had an overall great trip caught so many fish couldnt get pictures of all of them but heres some more fish we caught while there...