It’s hard to imagine anything dumber than wading out into a muddy river, reaching down deep underwater into a dark hole and wiggling your fingers as bait hoping that a giant catfish will clamp down on your hand so you can pull it out of the hole, without getting pulled in yourself. That’s a basic description of catfish Noodling, or the sport of fishing for catfish by hand.
It’s a dangerous sport that kills a few people every year and injures many more. There is more than cats that lurk in those holes – snapping turtles or snakes can do damage, not to mention that giant catfish that could just as well drag you down into the hole.
The term Noodling is used in Oklahoma; depending on what southern state you hail from you may call it grabbling, stumping, hogging or dogging. But it’s all the same thing – putting on your overalls, wading into some murky body of water, and taking your life into your hands (or at least the life of your hands) all in the name of a little sport.
ESPN Outdoors has done a story on Noodling. Okie Noodling premiered at the 2001 South by Southwest film festival. Noodling For Flatheads: Moonshine, Monster Catfish and Other Southern Comforts includes Noodling and other odd Southern traditions.
As always, Google is your friend if you want to know more.
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green day’s new album already came out toad fuckers
DID MIKE GIVE US THIS WAB SITE TO PISS OF THES REDNECKS?
THER NEW ALBUM DIDENT COME OUT YET DUMB ASS
come come, now now, no need to get feisty. Annd the album hasnt come the fuck out you TWAT.. anywho.com is this the new green day message board??? COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL. Yeah man iv already posted something.. and cheezy chaz man YOURE FUNNY! GREEN DAY KICKZ! luv ya all sexy bums
alice
if you are talking about shennanigans “their new album ” you are sadly wrong we are talking about the album that on the greenday website has pictures on it form the recording studio,, anyone got any information on the new album any of ye know the connection about greenday and ” the network” adeline records are billie joe’s record guys he started that company and the new band ” the network ” sounds really like em espiecialy the singer but mysertiously they never give out their names and they were never ever seen whats going on i really think its greenday ! anyone else agree for more information go to http://www.greenday.net !!!
i donno shit bout fish i gueess its kool.i dono if there is a point riting all the shit that green day messages say so i would like a prove billie or mike or tre send an email at greendayfreak_89@hotmail.com.kant wait for next album so i can add it too my fuckin big collection.tour soon !remeber prove me
from green day freak Guitar ass Yiannis Ioannou
i love green day i really do i think they are the best band in the world. I espacially love the song MISERY, that shit was kick ass i like how they used a mariachi in the song and the accordeon. they should make more songs like that. the first time i listened to green day was when my brother bought dookie in 1994 he always used to put the cd on and i learned the songs. then in the year 2000 i found dookie which my brother had left in a box with other cd’s and i took it out of the case and i restored it with alcohol and all the tracks played. and then i started looking for other albums by green day and i bought all of them. so green day i pretty much love you eventhough ive never met you. youre music is classic there will never be a band like green day
any greenday fans with msn add me ! yeah greenday are excelent i got all the official albums “excluding the live ones” eg bowling bowling parking parking and tune in tokyo ect.. gota get me those yeah anyone here with msn messanger add me and we can have some conversations
New topic..
BEST GREENDAY SONG ? ! ? !
i know it is a hard decision but try make up your mind or even give 3 or 4
Stuck with me, King for a day, Basket case, Minority.
hahaha green day is soo damn random i mean cat fish noodling?? haha this is great!! but dont die please i still need to see you guys in concert!! Well green day ever read this cause if they do YOU GUYS ROCK!!!! Minority is a GREAT song plus all your other songs im a BIG fan
Green Day is so damn awesome
yeah guys dont go changing if you change you will be turning us all down !! LONG LVIE GREENDAY !
me & me girlfriend.. big fans !
still waiting on the new album or are ye the network ? cmon you can tell your loyal fans !!!
msn users.. add me !
thatguy147@hotmail.com
It’s unfair coming to someone’s site and not commenting on how good it is! Well i live in scotland, and iv never seen a catfish of that size…. must be deprived. Oh and if u are reading this Billie, Mike and/or Tre, come back to Scotland sometime soon, because i really need to see u playing your hearts out on stage. Last time i know of u being here u were in London and i couldnt go….. GET TO GLASGOW!!!
uhm… interesting… i think i found my new favorite sport! yeah!!! we should all take a trip to Oklahoma.. and noodle! yeah… anyways… bye
With Deepest Sympathy,
Oh Shnaps…
i’m gonna try granny noodlin’. i can imagin walking down peckham highstreet wigglin my fingers at smelly old fish!
FUCK
GREEN DAY!!
venez en france!!!!!
cat fish noodling is the shit
green day is the shit
mikes bass skills are the shit
tres drums are the shit
billie joe IS the shit
ya
Jesus Friggin Tap Dancing Chist!!!
I understand that you guys love Greenday(I do to)
but you souldn’t be acting like fucking idots to show that you do! I saw that someone wanted to be
Bille’s domentented love slave!*cough*freak*cough*
I love Greenday’s music and what all of it stands for, but I’m not going to act like a dumbass to show it!!!
As for the noodling…….dumbasses…….
Green day fu**ing rock dude
email me im bored!!
crazy_chloe56@hotmail.com
bye bye!!!
ill stop wearing black when they invent a darker colour!!
mmmmm…………….noodling????
well every one to there one!!
oh and ‘justo’ your soo right!!
dumbasses!!
hey if you gota problem with fans expressing the way they feel towards a certain band then kindly fuck off ! we dont appreciate your comments. yes you are entitled to your own opinion but there is no need to be expressed here so once again
FUCK OFF !
Keep fishing! Here is the biggest GREEN DAY-fan in Finland! Do you guys even know where finland is? Yeah, thats right, we got some polarbears here. One is sitting rihgt next to me and it says hello to all of you! Green Day kicks ass!
polar bears huh ? cool !!!!
gota get me one of those yeah im familiar with where finland is i live in ireland the land of the leprachans !!!! brun em burn em alll !!! and no we arent as drunk as alot of people thing ! lol
Green day rule !
Everyone visit my Green Day website!!!!!!!!!
it rulezz
i’m sure uve herd of it
hey “That Guy”, what direction to you want me to “fuck” off in, you just proved yourself a total idiot by giving me a response that a moron could thing of.
Ex:(examples of people like “That Guy”
Someperson: hey, I don’t like greenday, they suck
“That Guy”: Fuck off man! GREENDAY RUUULES WOOOOOOOO!!! I’M A JACKASS WOTHOUT A LIFE SCREWING SOMETHING I THINK IS A WOMAN!!!!!!!!
HOLY TO FUCKING SHIT-SHNITZEL! YOU GUYS MUST BE ON SOME GOOD FUKN SHIT!!! MIKE YA FECKIN LEGEND! AND THE REST OF YOU TOO! YOUR ALL FECKIN LEGENDS!!! COME TO IRELAND…AND WHILE YOUR HERE COME TO GALWAY..THEN GO TO THE SPANISH ARCH… YOU SILLY AMERICAN TOURISTS COME AND TAKE PICTURES OF IT..LITTLE DO THEY KNOW WHAT LUKS BEHIND IT! MUAHAHAHAAAA!!!!! ANYWAY, ILL BE THERE AND SO WILL MY FRIEND TONY AND ILL INTRODUCE YOU TO MY FRIEND TONY AND YOU CAN INTRODUCE ME TO YOUR FRIEND TONY! GREEN DAY, YOU ARE FUCKIN CLASS!! WELL I MUST FLY LIKE PIE…..SLATER! BY THE WAY-CAT FISH NOODLING? YOU GUYS ARE SO FUCKING RANDOM ITS CLASS! “PREAB SAN OL!”
-SPEECHLESS JULIE
lads!!
irish fucking rock
fuck ye english cunts!
give us back our teddys head!
i lurve spuds mmmmm…………
slah leat
xxx
lads!!
irish fucking rock
fuck ye english cunts!
give us back our teddys head!
i lurve spuds mmmmm…………
slan leat
xxx
THANK YOU…THE IRISH DO FUCKING ROCK! BUT IN ALL FAIRNESS IM GETTING TIRED OF EATING SHPUDS…ITS JUST SHPUD AFTER SHPUD AFTER SHPUD AFTER SHPUD AFTER SHPUD…
SLAN LIBH GO “FECKIN” LEIR!!!
-SPEECHLESS JULIE
(green day are fucking legends!!)
fuck the network
Yo Dudes,
. kiss kiss, from
I got this from Greenday.com where dear old mikey tells people to go on this! Great site. I must admit. Hey i was a school today and i was thinking, well when i’m older i’ll do fucking fun things like bands would do. Greenday you are NOT a phase to me. I love you all, peace
lali, mia, matteya, ni, Scary Mary.
Luv ya’ll please remember me as a fan that’s proud to be different. You r all beutiful to my eyes. peace.
xxxx
Heyyyyyyyyyyyy GREEEEEEEENNNNN DAYYYYYYYYYY!! Why don´t you guys come to Costa Rica sometime or give a concert there….there are a lot of fans over here , you should look at it!!!!!!!
gogui
I translated this all your dialogues one hour…It’s marasm…If you like GREEN DAY, why you say that they a fucking shit and etc.?
And this forum my mind is about catfish noodling, but no about a what is GD’s music…
But…I am fan a GREEN DAY, and I don’t understand if you not like a GD why you critisize them? I hate ,for example, a Blink 182 and A.Lavigne, but not call their music “…” and”…. …” and not visit their site…But somebody visited GD site (why?) and after on this site said “GD-shit”….
PS: I not know english very well…;-)))))))))
I hope you’ll understand me…….
to the russian girl…
This is probably pretty confusing, but a lot of the time if something is ‘the shit’ then it means like the coolest thing, other times it just means its crap…
to green day…
I love you boys
Come back to Ohio before the locals replace you in my heart… ha
Today i heard possibly the worst thing ever:
A.L’s cover of Basketcase.
-somebody shoot me-
PLEASE
How the hell did she get the rights to cover the song!?!?!
Please, PLEASE tell me the band did not agree to this!!!!!!
Catfish noodling now rocks my socks more than the family guy!
Bob Dole supports Green Day…Bob Dole…bob dole…ahh gotta love it
Courtney
vballchic178@hotmail.com
all the people who have written all of the stupid shit about green day are assholes this is a noodling web site but I guess thaet none of you know what that is cause you probably are not from Oklahoma so find the greenday web site and type your bull shit there.
uh oh, someone pissed off the redneck from oklahoma! watch out, i think hes got a shotgun, lol
oh, and by the way… we are not assholes, we’re PUNKS!
and to courntey who posted yesterday, anyone can cover a song… you don’t need to get permission as long as you aren’t trying to pass it off as your own, i.e. give the original artist credit
Dear God. This has spread. I heard about this years ago here in Michigan. I thought it was something my drunken uncles and cousins were doing instead of getting jobs. How wrong was I! Green Day does it so I guess indirectly these drunken redneck uncles and cousins were actually being punk. In a drunken redneck sort of way. I would do it but I lost all of my limbs in a freak accident involving Velvetta and dental floss. The safety pin had nothing to do with it. I don’t care what the thermometer says.
Deanna
Oh and I’ve loved green day since I was 16 and wrote handwritten looooooong letters complete with pictures and poetry and my class schedule. I’d like to say I was being ironic but unfortunately I was very sincere. I’m 25 and married now and stuff. I still think they rock and even honeymooned (against the husband’s will) in Berkely and stuff but I didn’t stalk them or anything. Just sort of checking out the place. I have no amazing stories or anything intriguing to offer the band to get them to write me. Do they do internet? So it’s not ‘unpunk’ anymore? Where was I?
ya can (anyone can) write me
bowiebum@hotmail.com
and here’s my hotornot link
http://www.hotornot.com/r/?eid=S8OQAU&key=CEQ
Deanna
i’ve got a lovely bunch of coconuts here they are standing in a row , big ones small ones some as big as your head!!
Catfish noodling?? Soooo random!! (I love random!) Oh yeah, and GREEN DAY RULES!!!!! I’m always trying to think of like my favourite song of theirs but I always like, count up to twenty ‘favourites’ and then give up cos they’re all fucking brilliant!!! And I have all of their albums, 2 unnoficial ones, and 1 live one (but not ‘Foot in Mouth’
I’m still trying to get that one!!)
I love Green Day, punk rock rules!!!
And Avril Lavigne sucks anal hair, and I heard the Basket Case cover too – I never thought even *she* could sing so badly… and such a great song, too! (crime!!)
Anywayz, email me at jellybeangrrl@hotmail.com
From Sarah xxxxxx
(UK, almost 16!!!)
P.S.
My life mission is to see Green Day perform live some day… Green Day, come do a concert in/near Oxford!!!!!
Oh yeah…. and this site is quite cool too.. i did check it out!! (Catfish noodling… heh)
And please Green Day don’t ever hurt yourselves catfish noodling, please??!!!!!!
Sarah xxxxxx
Hey! Well oh my gosh Catfish Noodeling sounds really dangerous but REALLY cool at the same time! Oh ya no offense to anyone, but I like Green Day and all, but if you wouldn’t mind I’m sure the catfish noodeler’s of the world would rather have you talking about um…Catfish noodeling then THE GREASTEST BAND!! GREEN DAY! I love em’the ol’bears. which even though this is a free country for free speech still it’s jus well this really isn’t the place to talk… but ya I love catfish noodeling well, it sounds like I’d love it except the whole using your hand, and deep hole…Well stay cool! Oh ya Catfish Noodeling is Random, who eva said that! I love Random to!!
GREEN DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Catfish noodling? Why are you(Billie, Mike, & Tre) reading stuff about catfish noodling, haha, that is funny. Bye.
Umm.. catfish noodling person… Why don’t you use a fishing rod?
Later.
This is Green Day, I am the master of you all!
No i’m just kiddin’
Green Day you’re awesome, I can play lots of your songs on my guitar, Mwahaha!
GREEN DAY IS THE BEST BAND EVER!
My name is Pac Man.
Green Day rocks! –Rock On–
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HOLY CRAP! I LOVE THIS PLACE…WELL WELL WELL. WHAT TO WRITE THIS MORNING..DUNNO!!
“I AM THE BACKWARDS GLOVE!!”
HMM..WELL IF ANYONE’S IN IRELAND AND YOUR BORED JUST DROP IN TO MY HOUSE AND WE CAN MAKE GREEN THINGS AND HUNT GIPSEYS AND SHIT! E-MAIL MEEEE!!
-SPEECHLESS JULIE
GREEN DAY YOU GUYS ARE THE SHIT!!
(please take note of the ‘the’ and that i didtn say that you guys are shit..you guys are THE shit!!)
PPS: THIS IS JULIE AGAIN…MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS VETPARADE@HOTMAIL.COM
“I AM THE BACKWARDS GLOVE!”
Greenday you guys rock. You truly have mastered the art of randomness. I love you and goodnight.
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY everyoone!
im in I.T as we speak. Dull shit.. course work and craANYWHO.COM EMAIL ME ALL GREEN DAY LURVERS ihateavrillavigne431@hotmail.com
All my friends miss the point of music completely and like cradle of shit.. NOT GOOD no offence to any COS groupies out there.. peace outttt
OOOOOOOOOOOO MR. FROST’S COMING! gotta go allll love ya xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
GREENDAY U ROCK UR MY FAVORITE AND ALWASY WILL BE PLEASE COME AND PLAY IN EDMONTON I ALWAYS WANTED to MEET U GUYS AND LERN TO PLAY THE GURTAIR AND BE A PUNK ROCK BAND AND YA I AM 14 JSUT LIKE WHEN U GUYS STARTED OUT I AM TRULY A FAN
P.S. Email me back greenday and DONT GIVE UP hope ur next album is better than shanagains since there was only like 5 good song on it instead of every good song lol ttyl bye and replye back
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