somewhere in the news today ...

A noodler has been arrested on a murder complaint after he confessed to killing another fisherman for trying to feed him to Bigfoot along a river in southeast Oklahoma, an OSBI agent reported.

"LARRY advised he believed JIMMY was trying to get away from him so that the sasquatch could eat LARRY,"

First thing about this strange story, what's a noodler you I ask.

The Urban Dictionary comes up with a rather unlikely definition given that the names look to be male:

Noodler

An alcohol induced, female bar patron with an insatiable and unrelenting obsession to haphazardly sample, finagle and endure an unfulfilling quest for the ultimate 'Noodle' (a.k.a. male genitalia).

This one sounds more like it:

Someone who has taken lots of mushrooms and feels/looks like a noodle.

But I think this may be the right one:

yourdictionary.com (fishing)

A practitioner of noodling The practice and sport of noodling (fishing for catfish using the bare hands).

and from definition.org

"A second-generation hand-grabber, or "noodler," Lee caught his first fish barehanded at the age of eight."

"If the fish is large enough, the noodler can hook his or her hand around the fish's gills, then you yank out your arm."

"Usually a noodler has at least one spotter who helps bring in the fish, which seems like cheating but apparently isn't."

Now on to the rest of the story: I can see why LARRY would want to kill JIMMY . In a case like this Stand your Ground and Self Defense seem reasonable!