Noodling for catfish, and most specifically for mudcats, has been an illegal fishing method in Kansas for many decades. The practice persists in uncivilized adjacent regions like Oklahoma and Arkansas, and many see the apparently increasing demand to permit it under some conditions in Kansas as an **evidence if the complete degeneration of civilized society.

Even that other barbaric fishing method called "snagging" is permitted only for a few species of noxious "rough fish," principally "gar," and then only at specific sites and during limited seasons. Fishing with an unbaited hook, other than a clearly recognizable artificial lure, is strictly regulated. "Still fishing" with an unbaited hook is strictly prohibited in all other cases: a lure must be kept in motion.

Regulations on baits that are acceptable are few, although the long-favored "dynamite" has been specifically prohibited for quite a long time.


** In Kansas, almost everything except attending certain fundamentalist churches is considered evidence of the complete degeneration of civilized society.

John