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Posted on 01.25.09 by Danny Glover @ 4:30 pm
Back home in West Virginia, we catch catfish the old-fashioned way, with stink bait, dough balls, nightcrawlers or any other number of meals that catfish love. It never would have occurred to me to use myself as bait like these guys did: Apparently it’s a rather common practice in some parts of the South to go “noodling” for catfish by letting them latch onto live human bait rather than a hook. Also known as catfisting, grabbling, hogging, gurgling, tickling and stumping, the practice has its roots in American Indian lore. People also noodled for their food during the Great Depression. “It’s like puttin’ your hand in a vice and tightenin’ it down,” one practitioner of the technique said in the video story below. Another said, “I don’t think we’re crazy; we just like to have fun.” Hey, if you can get a reporter for The New York Times to try his hand at it (pun intended), noodling must be fish-in-a-barrel fun. Filed under: Fishing and Video and West Virginia Comments:
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