Noodling (not to be confused with coupling)

Knoxville-Horn

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Is this "sport" something cool that I missed growing up or are these people insane rednecks? Just saw an HD feature on them. It took place in Oklahoma.

Wondering if anyone on this board has noodled and/or has an opinion on it.
 
OT- what's canoodling that people do in Holland and maybe other European countries?

When I was in Amsterdam both the Paradiso and Melkwig had such events and it couldn't have been the same band.
 
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Champion "noodler," or handfisher, Lee McFarlin holds a giant flathead catfish he caught using his hand as bait. "Everybody tells me I'm the guru of noodling," McFarlin says. "Until you can control that fish, he will whip your butt every time."

McFarlin chalks up his wins to practice and technique. From May until July, McFarlin noodles two or three times during the week and all weekend, routinely snagging his limit of three fish.
 
^^exactly...give it to Monaco or someone like the David Koresh....
 
They had a great hixsploitation double feature at the Alamo a while back that included the Jesco White documentary "Dancing Outlaw" and a documentary entitled "Okie Noodling". The Noodling filmmaker answered questions after the show.
 
The show I watched had some people from Missouri who had come to Oklahoma to noodle. They were also trying to get it legalized in Missouri (hats, signs, the whole nine yards). At one point, the granddaughter looks at the camera and says, "if you ain't bleedin' you ain't fishing." Kind of creeped me out.

To me, it almost looks cool but then, another part of me says, "trailerpark". Kind of like, hunting raccoons at night while drinking moonshine.
 
I don't understand why noodling is illegal.

I know fish traps and the like are because of 'sportsmanship' issues but noodling seems pretty damn sporting to me.
 
If i might add something from the onion world atlas about oklamhoma to put all this in perspective:

Oklahoma motto - a tumbleweed passed through once.

in 1912, a tumbleweed lazily blew across the dusty prairies of oklahoma on a soft summer breeze, an event long remembered as the only thing to ever happen in the state.

some fleeting industry came to oklahoma upon the tumbleweeds arrival as locals attempted to capitalize on the remarkable occurrence. but when the ball of dry thistle eventually rolled into texas, it left in its wake nothing but barren soil and broken dreams...
 
Noodling, or grapling, should be illegal. Stupid redneck tricks, goes great with cockfighting and dogfighting. Actually these three define the trinity of redneck sports. They probably have an Olympics for the devotees of these events every four years in Enid or Muscogee, passing out gold Skoal cans to the victors.
 
accurate:
I have to say you're in on this one. Shouldn't be illegal (where it isn't already) for 2 reasons:
1) Most legislative bodies probably have a whole lot more constructive things to think up laws about.
2) The potential it has to thin the herd. Addition by subtraction.

btw, kangsta(?)
Big catfish are ALWAYS diseased-looking, whether they've been in a fist-fight with a redneck or not.
Sitty-boa.
 
I had never heard of this before. People are weird. As a funny aside, according to wikipedia 'noodling' is also know as catfisting.
 
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