shows my ignorance of fishing

What? Texas may soon be the 18th state to make it legal to catch catfish with your bare hands:

“Noodling is the practice of using a person’s hands to find the fish in underwater nooks, then to get the fish to latch onto the noodler’s arm with their mouths. Sometimes, the noodler can get their hands in the catfish’s gills.

The noodler then takes the fish to a boat or to shore and gets the fish to let go of the arm. It is often a two-person job, as catfish can grow to nearly 50 pounds.”

Somehow, this seems grotesque.

Does it sound pleasant to run your arms through “underwater nooks,” hoping that a catfish will bite you?