Hannah and her dad Jeff are here in alabama. You should contact her and tell her you are coming to alabama. She would love to take yall noodling.

Keep in mind, Hannah is tiny but she also spend like 20-30 hours a week powerlifting in a gym, then spends entire days during the summer doing the noodling, hunting during the colder months. Her entire family has been doing tghis for a long time. The people who tend to drown are those that go out without someone trained to do it and how to rescue someone in trouble. While I grew up in the same state as Hannah and I like being outdoors, I never tried to noodle and I have never been hunting. The only time I have ever fired a gun is shooting skeet with a 12 gauge shotgun.

Hannah and her father, also Hog Hunt ,and Deer Hunt they are the real deal.

good thing is that a turtle has to come up for a breath . My Pawpaw said that him and friends would go to the rivers when they found out they would be lowering the river to do work on the power houses that supplied power for the many mills around here . They would find holes in the river and use poles with a hook on the ends to catch fish . He said that large snapping turtles were always on their mind . They realized that most times the turtles would only hide where the water was low enough for the turtle to get a breath without coming out . The large snappers and soft shell turtles were prized and were eaten .

In 1969 when I returned from Viet., I came home to my mother's ranch in East Tx. A local dairy owner was running some "trout lines" on the Brazos River with a commercial fisherman for fun. He heard that I was back & invited me to come along. They would run their lines with an alum. flat bottom boat. Off of 1 trout line that day, we caught a 45 & a 60 lbs. catfish. They were so huge that they filled the bottom of the boat & we had to put our feet on top of the fish. We took some photos of both fish along side a 4' chain link fence for size reference. The 45 was 4' & the 60 was longer. Later that week "Joe Mike" drove up to our ranch house in his pick-up truck. In the truck bed was a gar that he had just caught off one of his lines. It was laying a little diagonal in the bed as it was longer than the bed. Fishing on the Brazos, you also have alligators & water moccasins to watch out for.

The trick is to make sure the tunnel or cavity is completely underwater. So no snakes or turtles in those holes

Keep in mind Hannah is only about 5 feet tall, she is tiny and doing that. You always want to do it in pairs because they can drown you if you get a hold of a big one, the blues and flatheads (aka yellow cats) can get over 100lbs. My mom grew up noodling on a river known for huge snapping turtles, I am like you in that losing fingers to a turtle is what scares me. They have a noodling tournament every year in Oklahoma. Hannah has some great hunting videos as well.

Hannah Baron is a beast and has a great channel. Give new meaning to getting a bite while fishing lol😂 besides snakes, snapping turtles, and muskrats will tear you up

Your daughter & you are so sweet together

Where my dads family lived in southern missouri it was normal to see the jaws of catfish hanging on posts because the country boys who caught em while noodling would be proud. It was an unspoken rule in the area only fish caught that way can be displayed. The family that lived next to my grandparents house had lived on that land 120 years and that was in the 80s. They still live on it. The uncle of my dad's next door friend drowned because he went noodling while alone and drunk. He got pulled under by a big fish. Going noodlin is like surfing. Never go out alone just in case you need help.

Fried catfish is delicious!!!!

When little Hannah is really on it, she giggles like a chipmonk. Snappers will take a toe or finger!!!!

13:16 That she gave you when you said she’d be doing that if she’d grew up there!😂😂😂

We live about 30 miles from the Mississippi river on the Illinois side. The Mississippi has many dams on it that have to be inspected regularly. Inspection divers have claimed that below the dams there are catfish at the base of the dams that are large enough to swallow an average man whole. Most of the divers will only dive them only once; and then refuse to ever go back down ever again (scared of the large catfish).

If your little girl is a space nerd, she'll fit in well in Texas. Not only do we have NASA headquarters in Houston, we also have SpaceX Starbase at Boca Chica, near Corpus Christi on the Gulf Coast. You guys should do a video on Starbase, what they have going on there is just amazing.

If l understand this correctly catfish dens or holes are used to lay eggs and protect them from others fish. Thats why they find two fish alot of times in the same hole their a mating pair.

The one he let go, is about the largest they can be while still being edible. Any bigger and they mostly just taste like mud.

I used to catch catfish when I was a kid. But they were smaller and I used a fishing pole.

Y'all are to cool. I believe your family would fit right in any southern states for sure. But your choice of Texas is a good one with lots of land and some parts good access to water. Hope you guys enjoy your trip next year.

The turtles usually stay on the surface sunning itself, the blue catfishare the mean ones.. Channel, blue, and shovel head

"Flathead" is the other type of large US catfish you were trying to remember. Peace, Love!! (you remembered before the end)

At Pickstown Dam, South Dakota, USA workers were diving under water to do dam inspections and came across 6 foot long catfish. Scared them to death.

Her Dad, Jeff, just had that arm repaired from a bad break.

The deal with catfish is they are delicious, problem is after they get about 25+ pounds is they get fat deposits through their meat, and ruins it (for me). Just looses its taste after they get so big. Obviously during the zombie apocalypse I would deal with it. But now I get to be picky. 😊

About 30 years ago at Lawrence, Kansas, at the Kansas River Hydroelectric dam a man got a hold of a 100 pound+ Blue cat and it drowned him. He went under to get it and only came up after he died. Noodling isn't for the faint of heart. The big one can drown you if you aren't real careful.

We also have a HUGE catfish called Flatheads. In some rivers then can get over 80 pounds. Another note....The big cats are usually not as good to eat as the ones in the 5 pound range.

Other than species mentioned that may inhabit the hole, consider that anywhere in the south there is water there may also be an alligator. We're a sub-tropical zone so if the water warm enough gators will go there.

Yup, Jeff Baron suffered the detatched tendon while he was noodling.

those blue catfish are mean as hell, thats probably why they wore gloves and sleeves. the brownish one she said was "cute" was a flathead catfish, they don't tear you up as bad

The two best days of your life, the day you get your boat, and the day you get rid of your boat.

Noodling, Spelunking and Skydiving three things I will never do!

Blue Cat and Channel Cat are the same. There are also Yellow Cats and the huge Opelousas Cats also called “Flatheads”.

The two species they catch are blue catfish and flathead catfish. Yes they lay a large clump of eggs. 9:29

Her dad fell a few months ago and broke his back and neck and he is recovering now.

Remember, in louisiana there are also alligators in the waters

Noodling is common in the southern states and Texas and Oklahoma, Im an Okie myself and there is an annual Noodling contest in Guthrie Oklahoma. You should check it out!

I miss boat that was a flat head that I was thinking of. Blue, catfish, channel, catfish, and flathead, catfish

Farm raised catfish is clean and tastes great. I know a man who did noodling. I have been chased by a snapping turtle.

Get a taste of the southern accent that Hannah has. It is as "thick as molasses".

Don't forget that before they let them go they need to make sure they have been revived. They are tired from the fight, low on air, and they will usually put them in the water and move them back and forth to get the water running across their gills for reoxygenation. Once the catfish or any fish for that matter comes back around to reality, they are ready to be safely released. If you do not revive them first and just let them go, especially if they are in water with no current, they will not have water passing over their gills to give them fresh oxygen and they very well may still suffocate and die on the bottom.

The dangers are those barbs or whiskers. They can stiffen on reflex and seem to be as hard as nails when they do tense them up. They also have these tiny teeth that if they get a bite around your arm and they can spin their body it will about cut off your what that mouth is wrapped around. Seen a guy reach in to get a blue cat out of the water on his line and the fish stiffened its barbs and it went straight thru his hand and was sticking out the other side. He still caught the fish lol.

The look she gave you at (13:15) was priceless!!! I had to go back and rewatch the rest because I was laughing so hard I missed it!!

In Arkansas we have Blue, and albino channel cats. Flat head cats yellow cats and spoonbill cats

“They release them I’m sure” …you don’t know how good they taste bartered and fried

I’m some areas it’s not the catfish but the gators that come up behind ya!😂

A lot of people do that. It's a thing over there. I think they even have tournaments.

Hanna is awsome they take people on noodlin trips here in alabama u should look her up if u come to the states

I love to go catch catfish!! We use poles not our hands. I caught a 56 pound blue cat and he fought me for a while. I hooked another but the fish went under a log and I had ti break the line. I found a great boat to charter at Santee S.C. and I had a great Captain. You pay one price and you get him and his boat with his poles and supplies. This was several years ago and it only costed us about $230.00 for a day. I know it has to be a lot more since gas has went up. You can find deals like this and you don't have to buy/have anything just walk onto the boat. We live in Georgia but I had always wanted to go fish the Santee lake area of South Carolina so I chartered us a trip and we did it again the following year. Our buddy wanted to go and he took his Pontoon boat and we went there for a few days. Filled our freezer and had a huge family fish fry. Catfish lay eggs and April during the full moon was when we caught so many fish. We had so much fun. I'm kinda crazy but I LOVE to clean catfish. I'm also the same kinda woman who digs through the gut pile when we drop a deer off at the butcher. We don't have the space to hang and cut up a deer so we pay someone. The man let's me have livers and hearts out of the gut barrel. I cook these for my dogs. They have not been kept for human consumption so the dogs love them. I'm not a organ eater, just don't like the mineral taste but I cook liver for my family. When we would catch catfish and they would have their egg sac my cats loved that also the dogs. One guy we know wanted the egg sac and he would eat them. I never tried that so I don't know what it tastes like. My Vietnamese neighbors wanted the fish heads and they ate them. We would have a couple hundred pounds of fish and we would always leave the lake and drive straight home. It took us 5 hours to drive home and the fish would on ice and so fresh. We would have family waiting with the big cast iron stew pots full of oil. Even after cooking a hundred pounds of fish we still had plenty to freeze for the year. We got enough fish to pay for our trip plus just all of the fun. We have several big lakes close to us but Santee is just known for big cats (hawgs is another name) . This has brought me so many Great memories. I hope you and your beautiful kids can come over and visit this side of the pond. Sending ❤ from over here to your family. You sound like you would fit in perfect, especially here in the Sounthern part of the States.

I grew up around this part of the country and people who do this routinely. I like yourself, knowing there's not only common Snapping Turtles but some areas has Alligator Snapping Turtles, an altogether larger and more scary species, along with Real Gators and Alligator Gar Fish (There's an "Alligator" theme here). I have seen folks pull out big Turtles and once a large Water Dog (*), which to this day is the only time I've seen one. (*)- A Water Dog is a colloquial name given to a Large Aquatic Salamander commonly called a "Hellbender", they are found in Kentucky's waters and areas south, because of their secretive nature populations are hard to judge but is considered a threatened species.

Catfish are dinosaurs. Nothing they do hurts them, with exception to potential gill plate pressure that could stretch them. It's the equivalent to you pulling a muscle, and recovers just fine.

Theyre actually tagging them….Because the Male Catfish attract Female Catfish by Finding a hole….. Then it’s the Male Catfish Responsibility to Watch the eggs in the hole.

You said you wondered if they ate the fish. . usually by the time a catfish has lived long enough to get that big, it's picked up a bunch of worm like parasites. Catfish is a really great tasting fish, but the big ones can be something of a crap shoot! We usually throw the big guys back. If you want to eat em, go for the fish that are 1 - 2 lbs.

There is a TV show called river monsters and in one episode they noodle a wels catfish in Spain

Noodlin is well known in southern Alabama.

Guys, if you get into the southern U.S.A. you have to try fried catfish

In our local rivers, there are catfish large enough to, actually, swallow a whole human being. ( I live in Kentucky, by the way.) While I don't know of it, actually, happening, I know that it's possible. In the river that I live close to, people have drowned and were never found.

There used to be a show on tv called Hillbilly Hand Fishin. It was quite entertaining!

Those that big don’t taste near as good as the ones under 10 pounds

American catfish...Blue, Chanel, Flathead, White, Mudcat. All are edible and one of the most popular farm raised or wild caught fish in America fo food. Catfish layeggs generally around May of each year. The male digs a nest or is provided one by the farmer the size of a milk can (30 liters) and he entices the female to lay her eggs (She can lay around 20,000 eggs per pound of her body weight) The male then guards the eggs until they hatch, providing oxygenation and water movement across the egg mass to keep them alive. The survival rate for catfish fry in the wild is around 1-3% farm raised it can be upwards of 50%. If you don't get to do any hand fishing when you come over t least find a good guide to take you catfishing on one of our southen lakes or rivers for some hefty cats.

She has a home gym and she also works out regularly also so she’s stronger than heck

I noticed in the video u said u wanted a boat, some land and a pickup truck . You would definitely fit in with us folk down here in Texas, lol. I think u will love Texas when u come down here to visit. Just don't come in the summer 'cause the heat is ruthless!

13:16 I love the “do what?” look she gives you. 👍🏼

sometimes catfish can get to be several hundred pounds and out weigh the noodler, I have heard catfish can get bigger that a Volkswagen, so they can clamp onto to your arm and pull you down with them

the three cats that the go for are blue, channel and the flathead

Colonial Americans learned this technique from the Muscogee (Creek Indians).

Freshwater catfish is are one of the tastiest fish to eat. I never caught one as large as these, but admire the fact they released them to further their breeding. ❤

what is currently called "Noodling" has been done for thousands of years by (at least) the indigenous americans. so it goes back into prehistoric times. it's just that the europeans may have first widely reported it a few hundred years ago. i know my tribe (Chickasaw/Chikasha) has been doing it for a looooooong time.

You will love Texas. With house and pond. get Truck, boat, Whinchester, and the hat that matches you.

Fella, come to Minnesota. We have lakes and boats and pickup trucks to spare. :) Bring your family!

Snappin turtles ain’t so bad. It’s the alligator snappin turtles you gotta worry about. They bite like a pair of bolt cutters!

They usually tag them and let them go.

Fortunately for you when you fly into the states the noodling busses are required to drive straight to the catfishing grounds. Its a new law instituted by the bureau of catfishes and us customs enforcement. All persons seeking entry to usa will have to show a mastery of noodling theory and a practical demonstration.

The thing about catfish their teeth are like sandpaper then may scrape their teeth against ur skin but it won't seriously hurt u

FRESH Catfish is the BEST fish I've ever had!

I tell you what, I get decades of blue-collar work. Hanna is tougher than me.

Met a champion Noodler 30 yrs ago, dude was scared all the way up his arms.....snake, turtle bites.........nope no way!

I live in North West Alabama, near Florence and close to Wilson dam, when divers check the base of the dam they say there are channel Cats there the size of compact cars, true Monsters

You need to see Hannon Barron's workout video. Never seen someone so small in stature bench and squat so damn much weight. By the way, this is southern Alabama I believe.

There are noodling competitions in the United States. Maybe you can find some videos on that.

a good-sized snapper can easily take your hand off.

Anyone living in that area knows exactly what they are doing in that water. They probably don’t think they’re weird. It’s normal. It’s only weird to the people who have never heard of it. It’s not weird for the people who live along the river.

They weigh those catfish and then tag them and let them go so they can catch them again later on

Blue, channel, yellow, Appaloosa, mud catfish were the only ones we had on East Texas. Mud catfish aren’t very good to eat. Big ones aren’t very good compared to 5-10 pound ones. We used to catch babies and put them in stock tacks(ponds we made). Then in a couple years, set a cane pole out and catch fresh dinner. My grandmother would soak mud catfish in fresh milk for a day to make it edible. When we were your daughter’s size, we weren’t allowed to swim in the rivers, because of gar and gators.

Theres no way in hell I'd blindly stick my hand in a hole, in water you cant even see through.

People in the south from Southern Missouri to Texas know what people are doing neck deep in water. Grabbing , Noodling, Hogging different names means the same thing. Hell people up in Illinois Noodle so it's not seen as weird. Country girls don't play when they spend the day with you they're right there. No messing around.

I'd have to get really hungry before I attempt that.

There's a lot of good food right there. But, like all river fish, you have to soak the fish meat in saltwater overnight. Like most fish, catfish are all muscle. She mentioned being stabbed because catfish have a barb on each on their mouth, and leave a nasty infected puncture. Catfish here in the states can reach 100 Lbs. and more. I've used 1/2 of a chicken cat fishing. Did you ever get those horse pictures printed.framed?

Never would do anything like that, but I've been cat fishing on numerous occasions. If you're not careful how you handle them, their spikes on the dorsal and pectoral fins could go right through your hand.

Hannah Is in the process of building your house. I caught a baby Flathead Catfish in Iowa and my brother had it as a pet but it died

Most catfish that are eaten are farm raised in a pond like any meat animal. Hard to beat catfish for eating.

At the mansion alligators, and some places!

Hope you guys are okay

And the Cat-a-pillar

Yes, they lay eggs, and lots of them(up to 100,000).

It seems just like many other things, the larger they get, the less yummy they tend to be. Catfish 10 lb and under tend to be the best tasting.

You should check out Gordon Ramsey going noodling. Then clean and cook. He was absolutly out of his confort zone.

The blues can get 2-5+ feet and can weigh over 100 lbs.

It doesn’t take a lot of weight to drown you. Jeremy wade from River monsters did a test on this. 5:27

As I understand it the big ones don't taste as good so the ones you eat or smaller and the Big once you take a picture with then release to go make more catfish 🙂 Big ones are for sport & bragging rights, little ones are for eating

Hannah is used commonly as an example of what us American men actually want in a woman