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Two mink noodeling for catfish in a drainag canal.
For those of you not familiar with this hobby "noodling" is a method of fishing sometimes practiced in the southern United States that uses no bait or tackle. The objective is to use your own hand as bait and grab on to the mouth of a catfish when it tries to eat your hand.
It is obviously not a hobby for the faint hearted. The best place to find catfish is in stagnant swampy water which is enough to deter most people. Their is also the very real risk of finding snapping turtles, alligators, or poisonous snakes waiting in a hole instead of a catfish. If however, you aren't a complete wuss noodling can be a lot of fun as well as a very primal way of experienceing the natural world. Also catfish are delicious.
Mink are quite skilled at fishing and the hobby of using mink to catch fish is another interesting activity that some people have taken up as a sport.
I love using my drawings as a way to share these traditions and activities with others.
For those of you not familiar with this hobby "noodling" is a method of fishing sometimes practiced in the southern United States that uses no bait or tackle. The objective is to use your own hand as bait and grab on to the mouth of a catfish when it tries to eat your hand.
It is obviously not a hobby for the faint hearted. The best place to find catfish is in stagnant swampy water which is enough to deter most people. Their is also the very real risk of finding snapping turtles, alligators, or poisonous snakes waiting in a hole instead of a catfish. If however, you aren't a complete wuss noodling can be a lot of fun as well as a very primal way of experienceing the natural world. Also catfish are delicious.
Mink are quite skilled at fishing and the hobby of using mink to catch fish is another interesting activity that some people have taken up as a sport.
I love using my drawings as a way to share these traditions and activities with others.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / General Furry Art
Species Mink
Size 1280 x 982px
File Size 509.9 kB
This one is based on a real place in East Texas where floods have resulted in bridges being built and replaced several times over. I'm not sure of the various ages of the ruins there. Some of it is said to be left over from the "Great Scrape" where a nearby town was burned to deny land to the Mexican army during the Texas revolution. I don't know how valid that claim is though. Much of it looks more modern than that to me.
I haven't eaten catfish in ages! In the region where I was born here in Italy it's almost unknown, being a mountain region mostly. My grandmother, that was an Eastern Italian immigrant, used to cook it, I don't have an idea of where she was able to find these, I guess there still was a market in the seventies, since many Eastern immigrants were first wave and the recipes weren't lost yet. And yes, it's delicious, eel and catfish are very very delicious.
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