Throughout August, the Tribune will feature 31 ways Texans' lives will change come Sept. 1, the date most bills passed by the Legislature take effect. DAY 18: The sport of catching catfish with bare ...

Noodling is the "art" of catching catfish with your bare hands. Although it may not sound like it, the activity is actually a sport - and can be a dangerous one at that. The activity has been ...

Laws signed by the Texas governor go into effect this week. Aug. 30, 2011 -- intro: What would America be like under a Rick Perry presidency? Well, if Rick Perry's Texas is any indication, the country ...

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 ...

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Amid the budget drama of the day, senators had a few moments of levity ...

Everything's bigger in Texas, including the size of catfish. Noodling, the art of catching catfish with your bare hands, took the spotlight in North Texas last month when a pair of adventurous Texans ...

Noodling is the art of catching catfish with your bare hands. Although it may not sound like it, the activity is actually a sport - and can be a dangerous one at that. The activity has been prohibited ...

A question sky divers are always asked is why do you jump out of a perfectly good airplane? The same could be asked of catfish noodlers, a group that steps over a rod and reel to jump into the water ...

(CBS/AP) AUSTIN, Texas - Feel free to look up noodling in the Urban Dictionary, but in Texas it means catching fish with your bare hands. On Thursday, while budget negotiations were teetering on the ...

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 ...

Draw-dropping doesn’t even begin to cover it. A 19-year-old former Texas cheerleader has been named champion of Oklahoma’s 14th annual Okie Noodling Festival after wrestling in a 72-pound catfish with ...