noodling

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  • Catfish noodling is a fishing technique that involves sticking your arm into a catfish hole and waiting for one of the big monsters to latch onto your arm as it attempts to escape.
  • Hillbilly Cat Fishing Okie Noodling: a documentary on catfish noodling (via Kottke)
  • The rare - and painful - fishing technique called noodling is illegal in Missouri. —  STLtoday.com Top News Headlines
  • Buried under more than an hour of Demme's Sixties noodling is a nifty sixty-minute family drama.
  • Unless you're mandolinist Chris Thile and bassist Edgar Meyer, in which case genius triumphs over tradition and you team up to record an album and it sells because your noodling is so cool, so well played that the listener's ears and mind will follow every note effortlessly. —  Mandolin Cafe News
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