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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this is just a load of ballshit
Hey! I’m from South Africa. No! Im not black! Thatsa big fish. I had no idea they got that large. That thing could eat a small man… like a dwarf maybe. GREEN DAY are the only band there is (I like every single fricken song) but they wont even come to my country so I can see them perform live. Maybe one day. Nelson Mandela says hi.
What a great hobby!how the hell did you get into catfish noodling?arent you scared?i would be!-maria
Thats a crazy thing to do! do you think you could ever get a catfish stuck on your hand? that would be a dumbass thing to do!-abi
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HEY THERE GUYS!!!!
im still a huge fan of yours, hope everything is ok, Dont know if Tré remembers me from Portugal, i went to australia to see a gig on the goat island, and then tré just gave me a tiket too your concert in Portugal:)
Thanks 4 playing real music, keep in touch
Chantel, portugal ( ya know…next to spain…i guess
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I am in a fraternity in atlanta ga and a couple of my friends and I would like to go noodling over spring break, do you know where we could get a guide to take us out?
Noodling will put some hair on your ass. Green Day. Why are you people posting your silly little messages here. Here’s a tiGreenday only gives a rats ass about you because you buy their garbage. Instead of walking around being Greenday’s monkey-people why don’t you all get a life. Nothing but a bunch of follwers listening to a bunch of idiots sing about how mommy and daddy didn’t love them or whatever bullshit. If you want some real music pick up Ted Nugent’s Double Live Gonzo. Didn’t mean to hurt anyone’s fragile feelings. Noodling is the true test of how much brass you got in yer sack!
wtf….thats all i have to say….
Woo Weeeeee by God I noddled my dang ol cousin last night.. I stuck my arm in that hairy monster and somethin’ latched on..I reckon I aint gonna do that right thurr anymore
Niccceee pagee
I’M FROM MORRIS CO. KANSAS AND I’D LIKE TO KNOW WHY THE PUSSY LAWMAKERS HAVE IT AGAINST THE LAW TO NOODEL? WHAT THE HELL BOBBY? AND SINCE IM ON THAT BOX IM EQUILY PISSED OVER MY OTHER FAVORITE PAST TIME, COCK FIGHTING. WHATS A CRAZY SOMBITCH TO DO WITH ALL THIS TIME? ONE HAS ON HIS HANDS
THATS BEEN IMPOSED BY THE JUDGE FOR GETTING CAUGHT?
SHHHIIITTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!NOTE TO SELF: MUST GO DEEPER INTO THE WOODS NEXT TIME
WHAT THE FUCK? GREEN DAY IS THE FIRST DAY OF NOODELING SEASON YOU FUCKING IDIOTS. YOUR ON THE WRONG SITE LOL SHUT UP AND DRINK A BEER PEACE OUT
Noodling – The Sport of Kings
After receiving some comments and e-mails about Noodling, I figured that this was a subject that needed more attention. I…
i went noodling in blythe california. in a cove where locals claimed were 5 foot cats. i drank a bottle of jack and waded into the water. a catfish bit my neck and i bled unconscious for a half hour then woke up floating down river. i swam to another cove and bled more. i felt a hole in the ground ad reached for the fish. i pulled it ashore and danced.
all i can say is DAMN!!!
i catch a lot of fish that weighs up 80 pounds noodling in eastern oklahoma
I think it would be very hard to catch and 80lb cat by yourself. It’s hard enough after theve been worn out on a troutline all day. As far as people dying, just goes to show dont beleive every ting you read in email. Turtles and snakes DO NOT bite under water! They breathe air..and they dont want to drown, and they dont hang out in holes underwater either!!! Think about it folks…
OK I retract the comment about snappers not biting under water. The can and do…but snakes…Im not buying it.
Tash is fat. Tash is fat.
Tasha takes it, Tasha takes it, Tasha takes it up the…
I live in Kingfisher Oklahoma and have only handfished creeks we usely walk the creek looking for old oil drums cement slabs brush piles and bank holes I have been handfishing all my life but I reily got serios this year I turned 16 and have a truck so I go when ever I want the biggest I have ever caught is a 40 pounder I usly catsh between 18 and 35 pounders The technigue I use is just fill around in the hole if you feel one try to grab its lip and when you get its lip put your stringer through it you can usely do that if its in a bank holle in a drum or under a slab but you have to worry about multiple holes and thats the problems with brush piles there are alot of places fro the fish to escape but plus bush piles are full of snakes and beavers and snakes beavers and turtles bite under water, but there are some huge fish in brush piles my moms friend caught a 78lb flat in on at lake El Reno the rod in line record for Oklahoma is 72 pounds If I caught one bigger than that I would tell them I caught it on pole.
LOOK WERE DO I START WELL FOR 1 I HAVE HEARD GREENDAYS MUSIC AND ITS A FUCKING JOKE. THIS IS A THREAD FOR CATFICH NOODLING NOT A STUPID FUCKING BAND THAT HASNT EVEN BEEN IN THE MAINSTREAM SINCE THE 90′S. GREENDAY FUCKING SUCKS SO ALL YOU LIL PUNK ASS KIDS NEED TO FIND SOMEWHERE ELSE TO TALKA ABOUT YOUR TRASH. I WANT TO TRY NOODLING BUT DONT KNOW ANY GOOD AREAS IN MY STATE.
GREEN DAY FUCKING SUCKS DONKEY ASS. AND NEED TO BE SACRIFICED FOR ALL TO SEE…
Donkey ass – is that me or is that tortology? A donkey is an ass, so if they’re sucking donkey, they’re also sucking ass… unless you meant ARSE, in which case you should have said so. Either way, if they do suck donkey, that’s a very lucky donkey to be sucked by Green Day. And find another site for catfishnoodling, this one has been ambushed by Green Day fans
And when it comes to mainstream – I’d rather listen to something non-mainstream than most of the crap that’s in the charts these days. Time does not change the talent, so even if they are ’90s, they’re still better than ’00s R&B etc.
WTF is with these semi-literate retards plugging the band Green Day here?!?
It is no surprise that Green Day fans are total idiots. Green Day sucks ass. They sound like your mom having sex with everyone from Def Leppard.
Even the stumpy druumer.
Noodle on, y’all.
I think green day.Sucks and as far as ambushing our site i would just remember us good old boys know how to hunt our pray and are damm good at it and some of you fucking idots left email adresses well we can look them up and find you so look around at night see the dark places some noodler will be there.If you think this is bullshit keep on writing we will be hear to get more and more pissed off and you know how us rednecks get when pissed off.
we’ll be watching greenday fags
keep on noodling Bros
I think green day.Sucks and as far as ambushing our site i would just remember us good old boys know how to hunt our pray and are damm good at it and some of you fucking idots left email adresses well we can look them up and find you,so look around at night see the dark places some noodler will be there and we will show how to noodle a 100lb fag right.If you think this is bullshit keep on writing we will be here to get more and more pissed off and you know how us rednecks get when pissed off.
we’ll be watching greenday fags
keep on noodling Bros
I would like to know the story about the above picture where can I find it? This is my first time to the site,and I really enjoyed it.
THANKS SP
I am making a documentery along with three other students in texas we are close to the oklahoma border but we need to know where we can get in touch with noodlers around warika, ringling, ardmore that area. Any help would be greatly appriciated. thanks
er…..about that Greenday topic…..i think theys the mutts nuts too!! come back to Glasgow guys, barrowlands, Gig at the Green or better still…my garden
Before there was NASCAR
Rednecks still needed ways to entertain themselves, and, perhaps, separate themselves from their miscellaneous bodily extremeties. I was over at John’s Jottings, today, and found this article on Catfish Noodling, the act of fishing for giant catfish by…
GREEEEEEEN DAY WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! im sorr guys but u like totally owe most of ure visitors to thos MOFO’s! imma see ‘em live at b’ham sooon!!!! wooooooo greeeeeeeen daaaaaaaaaaay!!!! btw all u noodlers
keep it cool. cept like proper hardcore, incestuous rednecks….ew. i mean i know there arent many but….well….uve seen deliverance right? GREEN DAY! (2 words)
all you little fucking rednecks need to get a fucking life. you have never heard a single green day song or you’d think they were THE ONE AND ONLY shit. Catfishing…hmmmmmmm…no comment. I live in a town full of fucking rednecks and I’m sick of it. You all need to move to the south so you can be your own little fucking country ruled by the dumbass bush.
PEACE OUT
I hope all you rednecks burn in hell for hating Green Day, and I put a plague on you and your family for the rest of your noodling days. GREEN DAY KICKS ASS! oh yes and will serve it to you anytime… Good day
thats a wels catfish and i went noodling for them and i got my arm bitten off.i barely survived it.
i used to go noodling until a 53 3/4 lb flathead catfish bit my arm and nearly ripped it off.the doctor said that i had to get it amputated.now my friends call me nubby.
….AND THEN GREEN DAY CAME AND BIT UR FUCKING REDNECK FACES OFF!!! MOHAHAHA
“IM NOT APART OF A REDNECK AGENDA”
MOTHER FUCKAS!!
Awesome!!!Unbelievable, had no idea about this!!
That definately takes some balls!!! Noodling! lol
O.k. as for ‘tayroofer’, cock-fighting and ‘Noodling’ are 2 TOTALLY different things!!!!!!
1 is hunting an animal (or fish) that has a chance to get away. Cock fighting is TORTURING an animal to death that WANTS to get away, idiot.
Jesus Fucking Christ
Not all of us ‘rednecks’ are that bad!!! I’m a REDNECK WOMAN, HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And believe me, if we could move to the SOUTH (as suggested by ‘americanidiot’),and make our own little country, WE WOULD, but all you pussy-WHINY liberals would cry and say that we were excluding people, being racial, blah blah blah blah.
So we are damned if we do and damned if we don’t.
Make up your minds, we had everything perfectly seperated, ( my great great great greatgrandfather fought for the NORTHERN Pennslyvania Army,I’m not racist, the blacks are more racist today than we are!!!!) YOU CRY-BABY liberals wanted it changed, everyone is co-mingled, now YOU tell us rednecks to get our own and all go live in our own country. WE HAD ONE AND YOU TOOK IT AWAY WITH WHINING THAT WOULD MAKE YOUR OWN MOTHER’s WANT TO DROWN YOU!!!!!!!
And now you cry about living in a redneck town and how you’re sick of it, WE HAD IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME! GODDAMMIT!!!!!! QUITE BITCHING about Rednecks, it’s because of us and soldiers who think like us that you PUSSIES are able to sleep safely at night. And Remember ‘Redneck’ stands for GOD, FAMILY,COUNTRY, and whatever it takes to protect them. A Redneck Woman
Long Live the U.S.A.
Oh yeah, just cause I’m a redneck doesn’t mean I voted for that LAME ASS IDIOT Bush, not even a CLUE how to run a war. Daddy’s little night time butt-fuck baby.
I LOVED Green Day, when I was 14. Now I feel nostalgic and OLD when I hear it.
Catfish Noodling
That’s a basic description of catfish Noodling, or the sport of fishing for catfish by hand.
hey, i dunno what the hell is wrong with some of u ppl that think Green Day sucks! whoever thinks greenday sucks is a fuckin dumbass! O YA And The DA RULES!! plus i get to see green day live soon right here in my town! HELL YA! u guys rock Billie Joe, Tre Cool, and Mike Dirnt!(Green Day)& Bryan Wahl, Dan and Nick Rock! (The DA) Later pplz!
is that catfish real, holy shit i cant believe it, are they always that big?
Fishy fishy wishy…
Its never 2 late 2 noodle in my books!
So i just wanted to say Green Day was awesome Down Under, (Australia)! They rocked every bodies asses in Sydney!
Now… what would i noodle? I would noodle anything wet and where? At a GD concert! … Now i’m fucked from last nights concert… so night night and ROCK ON GREENDAY!!
Friends of mine are looking into starting up a noodling contest this june at a local bar….wish i knew how to get in touch w/ all of the noodlers out there. it should be fun!!! Know anyone who’d be interested?
You guys are nuts…..
I am working on some pattented hogging gloves, i mean for actually catching with with your hands, they are also good for noodling. they have spikes on the outside to aid in gripping the fish, they are bigger than your hand, so also you can slip your hand out in case of danger. If you are interested email me @ outbackhntr@yahoo.com that is all
you know what? whoever wrote green day sucks- you suck! green day is the best band ever. green day is so much better than noodling! what kind of sport is that any way? dont talk bad about billie, tre, or mike cause they are all hotter and can sing better than you! and in sure if they tried they could noodle too.if it wasnt for mike than no one would even know what noodling is. so you know what- go jump back in your little pond and swim with your catfish friends.
GREENDAY ROX
!!!
fashizzle my nizzle baby <3
Whoa. What has the silly pansy detective stumbled upon here?
Hah. That sounded gay.
Yeah, and about Green Day—
GREEN DAY IS THE BEST FUCKITTY-FUCK BAND EVER, AND IF YOU DON’T THINK THAT, THEN YOU’RE JUST A FRENCH FRY IN A VENT!!!
GREEN DAY, YOU ARE FUCKING AMAZING.
IT CAN’T BE EXPLAINED HOW GREAT YOU ARE.
OH MY GOD.
*Bows to great Green Day masters*
And catfish noodling…OH, MAN!
I HAVE to try that!
Except…er….with my hand.
Heh heh.
And I just saw the funniest picture ever today—
go to http://www.livejournal.com/~balladofbja/ to see the Dancing Pope….
Whoa.
I just ate a dandelion, and it tasted like Satan.
*whimpers* BUT THE MAYONNAISE RAN -OUT-!
Hah. I love making up weird sayings.
send me a fricken e-mail if you love me
livewithoutwarning@greendayvideos.com
I am trying to find a copy of the movie Okie Noodling and do not seem to be able to find where I can purchase it. If you have any idea where I might locate one would you please let me know. Thank you,
Sandra Papanek
slp@artelco.com
Friday Fish Follies
Via boingboing comes this fish tale of 40lb catfish and the men who catch them … with their bare hands!…
Any1 who loves Greenday your so cool, but ones that dont, well, FUCK YOU !!!! I hate Megan, Claire, Ally, and a hole bunch of freaks that live in Brentwood or Franklin, oh ya, im cool !! Oh, ya im very random, i love Billie Joe, he is hot !! Can you smell the burning pork assholes ??
YOU ARE ALL A BUNCH OF IDIOTS! NUFF’ SAID!
hay pplz i didnt even no what cat fish noodling was i didnt no it existed untill i was listnen 2 green day messages sounds preety sweet!!! OK I LOVE GREEN DAY AND BILLIE JOE IS PUNKIALICIOUS ok im out bye pplz!!
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