The weird, wild and unabashedly Oklahoman sport of noodling, where anglers reach bare-handed into murky shallows to pull out massive catfish, has spawned an annual tournament and remains one of the ...

June and July are the prime months for catfish noodling in Oklahoma, although the recent flooding around the state has interrupted much of the hand-fishing. "It is making it a little more tough, ...

Who needs a fishing line when you can just use your hands to grab a catfish? There are still plenty of states where it is totally legal to use your bare hands to nab a catfish out of the water.

If I were to flip you the bird left-handed, which I sometimes do to mix things up, you’d notice that my middle finger is crooked, with a bulged knuckle. Why does it look like that? Catfish noodling.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – While many of ...

Noodling is when people catch catfish using their hands as both the bait and the hook. It is legal in only 17 states in the U.S. Thousands of people from all over the world make the pilgrimage to ...

The world of hand fishermen, best known as noodling, will take center stage with the return of the 25th annual Okie Noodling Tournament this weekend in Pauls Valley. Heavy rainfall and severe storms ...

The Shell station is off exit 212. The sign says Wewoka, but the landscape says Joad: Okie to the core, low, undulating hills shot through with barbed wire and the dry washes of old erosion. Turn off ...

Noodling, which is when one catches catfish with their bare hands, is legal in Louisiana as of Monday. Not like that’s stopped anyone before. On a hot July afternoon at Caney Lake in Chatham, a small ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. — The noodlers are revolting! And their uprising is being felt all the way from rural streams -- where they plunge bare-knuckled after big catfish -- to the Missouri Statehouse. Noodling ...