Some good news - Noodle took a rat today.
Thanks to everyone for the advice, this time instead of trying to feed him on my schedule I waited to see him starting to display "ambush position" behaviour, deep-cleaned his enclosure the day before as per the "Problem Feeders" thread recommendation, and followed the feeding tips from the Reptilinks videos.
The side-to-side motion recommended in the Reptilink video was surprisingly very effective, for some reason it seemed to make my BP very excited and he even struck and wrapped the rat, which he hasn't done in months (he became mostly a drop feeder over the past year).