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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A big Kentucky flathead. When a big flathead bites your hand, your buddies wading nearby can feel the thump reverberate through ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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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, ...

Three years after Texas legalized bare-handed fishing for catfish - known as noodling - officials are wondering how the state can help. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department unveiled a survey ...

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