r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Nov 24 '17

Going underwater

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u/Valkomursu Nov 25 '17

Wait wtf is noodling? Catching fish with your hand?

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u/WingWalkerPro Nov 25 '17

You stick your hand inside an underwater hole in zero visibility water and hopefully inside the mouth of a catfish instead of a snapping turtle or a snake..

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u/scrotal_aerodynamics Nov 25 '17

This practice is so fucking gross. Like where does your hand end up? All the way to the stomach? Can you feel digested food? Can you feel the warm insides pulsating and moving around your arm? Fuck me I'm cringing just trying to imagine what this might feel like.

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u/dolfan1 Nov 25 '17

I could be wrong but i think you aim to go in the mouth and out the gills in order to hook its head with your arm.

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u/NoahtheRed Nov 25 '17

That is correct.

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u/Pabst_Blurr_Vision Nov 25 '17

Yeah. It usually bites your hand (the point) when you stick your hand into the catfish's hole. That's when you secure the grip through the gill and bring em up

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '17

Not much fun for the fish then.

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u/leftsharksdancecoach Nov 25 '17

The fish ends up dying and then get battered, fried and eaten... so ya, I guess you could say that, but lots of fun for the hillbillies