WOMAN SETS NOODLING RECORD.

WOMAN SETS NOODLING RECORD. I posted here in 2011 about the prospect that Texas would legalize the sport of noodling, and posted here in 2012 about a new record in the Okie Noodling Tournament. Noodling consists of catching a catfish with your bare hands. Noodlers hold their breath while reaching into underwater caves, hoping that a catfish will chomp on their arm. The 2012 record catfish weighed 70.46 pounds. This year Lucy Millsap broke that record with a 72 pound catfish. Lucy, who is 19, began noodling when she was 5, but was an outlaw noodler until Texas legalized noodling in 2011. Here is a story about Lucy’s victory with pictures of Lucy and the fish; and here is a story about the victory from the Oklahoman by Hannah Covington with a video. In the video Lucy says that you don’t have to look for the fish, that the fish finds you, and Bradley Beesley says that there is a romance to hand fishing because of the interaction with nature.