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...