I give you: catfish noodling.
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Next week on Bloggingheads.tv:
BloggOodling!
(It can't be any worse than BloggingChefs.)
There's a whole documentary about this! Title is Okie Noodling, 2001, dir. Bradley Beesley.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0294805/
Haven't seen that film, Rob, but based strictly on its title and description, plus this YouTube segment, I imagine it would make a great complement to Cane Toads: An Unnatural History by Mark Lewis.
Noodling for Flatheads, by Burkhard Bilger (contributor to The Atlantic, New Yorker, and so on).
http://www.amazon.com/Noodling-Flatheads-Moonshine-Southern-Comforts/dp/0684850117
It kind of sounds like a dating guide for wonks, but it's something different entirely. And suggests the elite liberal media is not as out of touch with the South as people say.
It would be really funny to stock that water with pirhanas.
It would be really funny to stock that water with pirhanas.
Why wait for distant opportunities for fun? Saran-wrap the inner bowl of your own latrine and let the fun begin tomorrow morning when you've forgotten about it!
I take it that no one reading this blog has noodled for catfish. It is not for the faint of heart, you can be held down by a large flathead catfish (they grow to a hundred pounds) and drown or that catfish might turn out to be an alligator snapping turtle and you will be called "Lefty" the rest of your life.
At one time this was a way of feeding a family. Large catfish like those shown in the video are not all that tasty, three to four pounds is a better fish for eating, but if that is your thing, it will not greatly reduce the population of fish.
I doubt anyone will take the challenge, searching for the perfect snark is much easier.
I doubt anyone will take the challenge, searching for the perfect snark is much easier.
And look! You caught one!