By Barry Porterfield | bporterfield@pvdemocrat.com Some big fish and an eye on man’s best friend could be a big part of the ...

Pauls Valley's Okie Noodling Festival coming June 14-15 will again attract the interest of people living on the other side of the world. For this upcoming 24th version of the noodling tournament in ...

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 ...

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.

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – While many of Louisiana’s fishers are anglers who use a rod and line to catch their catfish, there are others who prefer to carry out the sport by using their bare hands.

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 ...

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, ...

And now to Louisiana, where some people like to fish by sticking their arms into murky water, feeling around for catfish and grabbing one by the mouth. It's called noodling, and a new law legalizing ...

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 ...