Well, it's been a quiet week in Harrisburg, my home town.
With the exception of the high school football playoffs (the Tigers beat longtime rival Canton), so quiet, in fact, that I have to go all the way to Alabama for some news.
My buddy Billy Bob (not his real name but one I gave him) is a life long Alabaman. He is the definition of a Southern good ol' boy. He hunts wild boars. He catches gators off the bow of a boat. And he's invented a gizmo that helps when you noodle.
Noodling is when you go into a waterway, stick your arm in an underwater hole, and pull out a catfish.
You and I would use a hook and line but that's how some folks do it in Dixie.
Anyway, he sent me a photo of some kids who used his invention. He says the problem with sticking your hand in a hole is that sometimes there are snapping turtles and snakes. Never mind the barbs on the catfish's nose.
The device must work because there's about 200-300 pounds of catfish sitting on the dock that these youngsters caught with Billy Bob's wonder noodling stick.
Well, that's the news from Alabama, were all the men love the Governor, the women all did what they had to do, and the children catch catfish with their bare hands.
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