Noodling!
Finally, we get a reality tv show on TV based in Oklahoma that isn't about Tornados. It's about Noodling! Yes, I said noodling. It's hand fishing for catfish, only they live in holes in the mud so you got to stick your hand down in them, sorta hence the name. This is also why catfish get the nickname of mudcats which is where History Channel got the title Mudcats.... because Noodling would probably bring up the wrong conotations... There was a previous show about this on Animal Planet called Hillbilly Handfishing and that's a dumb, slanderous title and no one watches Animal Planet anyway.... Why would anyone want to watch a bunch of yokels hand fish for catfish? Simple, sometimes you eat the fish... sometimes the fish eats you. Catfish are powerfully ugly creatures, big, slimy, and brutish. They can bite your arm up to your elbow leaving abrasions, locking on and dragging you down underwater. They are still scaley so if they aint slipping about, clubbing you with their tail, then they can cut up your hand. Oh, and guess what else lives in those mud holes? Snakes! Good times... Noodling is a popular past time in the southern states, Oklahoma especially since we either love or hate catfish so our relationship with them reflects the same. My uncle loved it, he'd been the first to apply to be on Mudcats had he lived, god rest him. (No, he wasn't killed by a fish, or that time he used a pipe and rock to make a shotgun, or when he jumped off the turnpike bridge to see if he could land in the creek, guess what, he did!) Moving on, I'm going to be watching tonight, partly to see how my fellow Okie's are portrayed, and also if there are any locations I recognize (hope they go to Keystone!). It airs tonight at 10/9c on the History channel, check it out!
111: Regarding Noodling
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