What is a noodle or noodling? It is a man or woman who catches a fish with his bare hands.

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Noodlers go into the water, and then reach into holes, hollow tree trunks and other underwater nooks to find the fish. 

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Texans say that noodling is unfair to the fish and since they are grabbed in their burrows without a chance to swim away. Noodlers will be fined $500.00 if caught.

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It is still amazing that if you have the guts reach in and grab a fish like this 60lb catfish with your bare hands that you deserve the fish.

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A lot of the time noodlers will find something other than fish including snakes, muskrats, beavers and other creatures that give them a noodling adventure to last a lifetime.

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There are two sides to every story so it will be interesting to see if noodling continues to be banned in Texas.

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At this time only 17 states allow noodling those include: Louisiana, Georgia and Oklahoma, home of the Okie Noodling Tournament. Missouri also has a ban against noodling, but a group called Noodlers Anonymous is working to turn the law around.

Learn Something Fun:  The origin of the term "noodling" is unclear. A columnist at The Oklahoman newspaper polled readers about it a few years ago and got several theories, including that catfish are as slippery as wet pasta and that a hand fisher's arm hangs like a noodle after battling a catfish.