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Noodling. A man with a fish caught by noodling. Map of the US states where noodling is legal in some form. Enrique Serrano with a 60 lb (27 kg) catfish caught by noodling, on June 18, 2015. Noodling is fishing for catfish using one's bare hands or feet, and is practiced primarily in the southern United States.
Trout tickling has an ancient history. Aelian, a Greek writer of about 230 A.D., writes in his De Natura Animalium (as published in England in 1565): "If men wade into the sea, when the water is low, end stroking the fish nestling in the pools, suddenly lay hands upon and secure them."
Juvenile fish are marketed as food. Whitebait is a marketing term for the fry of fish, typically between 25 and 50 millimetres long. Such juvenile fish often travel together in schools along the coast, and move into estuaries and sometimes up rivers where they can be easily caught with fine meshed fishing nets.
Bycatch. Bycatch of unwanted species in commercial fisheries. Bycatch (or by-catch), in the fishing industry, is a fish or other marine species that is caught unintentionally while fishing for specific species or sizes of wildlife. Bycatch is either the wrong species, the wrong sex, or is undersized or juveniles of the target species.
Tales of furry fish date to the 17th-century and later the "shaggy trout" of Iceland. The earliest known American publication dates from a 1929 Montana Wildlife magazine article by J.H. Hicken. A taxidermy furry trout produced by Ross C. Jobe is a specimen at the Royal Museum of Scotland ; it is a trout with white rabbit fur "ingeniously" attached.
August 7, 2011. (2011-08-07) –. August 5, 2013. (2013-08-05) Hillbilly Handfishin' is an American reality television show about noodling, the sport of fishing for catfish using only bare hands and feet. The series aired on Animal Planet from August 7, 2011 to August 5, 2013. The show starred Oklahoma fishermen Skipper Bivins and Trent Jackson ...
Longline fishing, or longlining, is a commercial fishing angling technique that uses a long main line with baited hooks attached at intervals via short branch lines called snoods or gangions. [ 1] A snood is attached to the main line using a clip or swivel, with the hook at the other end. Longlines are classified mainly by where they are placed ...
The film documents "noodling", the practice of wading in murky water and reaching into dark holes in the attempt to catch a catfish, a dangerous practice that often causes noodlers to lose fingers and toes. The method is hundreds of years old, [citation needed] and the documentary also examines the subculture surrounding handfishing,