Talk:Noodling

message: I have no idea what noodling is, and thanks to this article, I still don't. I see it's a way of catching catfish, but
:Noodling is the practice and sport of fishing for catfish by throwing your noodle into the water. Your noodle, or sometimes refered to as "your snake" is thrust into the water with the hopes of a catfish grabbing hold of the potential lure.
What the hell is a noodle? Do you mean a strip of pasta? Or your penis? Your head? The rest of the article seems to imply this has something to do with your arms, but google isn't helping and I still have no idea what a noodle is. --General Miaow Say Hello! 08:37, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Makes no sense 

message: That's from the opening paragraph, but it's incorrect. In Scotland, guddling is trout tickling, the word has no link to stumping, the only way they are related is by the fact their both hand fishing techniques. Maybe someone could add this information, I'll remove the sentence shown above. 138.38.217.149 (talk) 17:14, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "In the UK this technique is known as guddling" 

message: Noodling is also called "hand fishing" in the new PBS documentary on this subject, so this should be added as an alternate term (and a redirect or disambiguation page created). Badagnani (talk) 02:37, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternate name 

message: come on. only one note in the whole entry!?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stev0supreemo (talk • contribs) 09:01, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  needs citations 

message: :Transfered from User talk:Epipelagic
Yesterday, May 21st, 2012, I added a link on the noodling article for Jerry Rider's website since he was featured prominently in the article. I noticed you removed it for spam. Would it be more appropriate if I linked directly to his bio page on his website, so as to avoid the "spammy" elements? Or would it be more appropriate to create a separate article for him since he is a major figure in the practice? If that article was written, would it be appropriate to link to his website on that article? I'd appreciate any help you can give on this.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.207.254.138 (talk) 16:01, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the link, because it was primarily dedicated to promoting Jerry Rider as a commercial entity. You are welcome, yourself, to start an article on Jerry Rider if you think he is sufficiently notable. Wikipedia has a guideline concerning notability here. You can use this to reassess whether Jerry Rider is notable as far as Wikipedia is concerned. The notability needs to be current, and not just some faded fame he had many years ago. If you decide to start the article, this guideline is also relevant. The article is likely to be challenged unless you can establish notability based on reliable souces. You can search news items and books on Google for usable sources, though  based on some casual searches I made, there doesn't seem to be much there. A single appearance on the Letterman show in 1989 wouldn't be sufficient to establish notability. You can use information on Jerry Rider's website to establish personal facts about the man himself, such as when he was born, but not about public assessments. For example, Rider claims he is the "original noodler", yet a search on Google provides nothing much to support this claim. --Epipelagic (talk) 11:03, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

text: Well if you think you can establish enough notability with reliable sources, then go ahead and start writing the article. Please be careful to put everything into your own words, so there are no signs of copyright violations. I will keep an eye out and help if it seems appropriate. But as I indicated above, it may be difficult to establish enough notability for Rider. Also, since this seems to be an issue for you, you should examine whether you have a conflict of interest here. --Epipelagic (talk) 23:09, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Noodling Link Deletion 

message: According to Iowa Fishing Regulations from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources "It is no longer legal to hand fish."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.3.77.229 (talk) 09:41, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regulation Prohibits Hand Fishing in Iowa as of 2015 

message: See for example: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/noodling which identifies this usage as “1935-40, Americanism; origin uncertain” BananaSlug (talk) 20:39, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  noodling also means “to improvise, experiment, or think creatively” 

message: Lol methinks somebody vandalized the opening paragraph real good. I'm too lazy to google around and verify all those names but somebody probably should, lol.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.90.217.181 (talk) 12:03, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Methinks you may be right.  (Or it may indeed be a genuine slang someplace with the allusion intended.  We anglers can be strange folk.)  Easiest way is to delete the list and let people add them back in with verifiable reliable sourcing for the more pornuspective ones.  And already done.  Good catch, IP editor, and glad you didn't have to deepthroat to get it!   LaughingVulcan  13:16, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deepthroating?