{"id":30,"date":"2005-05-12T15:20:04","date_gmt":"2005-05-12T19:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/12\/noodling-ban-lifted\/"},"modified":"2005-05-12T15:20:04","modified_gmt":"2005-05-12T19:20:04","slug":"noodling-ban-lifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/12\/noodling-ban-lifted\/","title":{"rendered":"Noodling ban lifted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/outdoors\/general\/columns\/sutton_keith\/1336494.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/images\/_images__winnercomm_outdoors_fishing_i_P2_f_col_noodling_Sutton1.jpg\" alt=\"noodling\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nApparently, <a href=\"http:\/\/springfield.news-leader.com\/lifestyle\/today\/20050505-Noodlersgettria.html\">&#8220;noodling&#8221;<\/a> is a kind of fishing where you dive underwater, grab hold of a catfish with your hands, and then pull it to the surface. Noodling has been illegal in Missouri since 1919, but for a limited time this summer the Missouri Conservation Commission is allowing it in three rivers. From the guy in the picture:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve had them clamp down so tight on my arm that I didn&#8217;t know if they&#8217;d ever let go. They have rows of tiny teeth, and when you try to pull your arm out of their mouth, they&#8217;ll just skin you. I even had one fish that tore my tennis shoe right off my foot. I couldn&#8217;t walk for a couple days. But that&#8217;s all part of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why isn&#8217;t this universally popular?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, &#8220;noodling&#8221; is a kind of fishing where you dive underwater, grab hold of a catfish with your hands, and then pull it to the surface. Noodling has been illegal in Missouri since 1919, but for a limited time this summer the Missouri Conservation Commission is allowing it in three rivers. From the guy in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idiotic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}