A Virginia woman has won the inaugural Alabama Black Belt Adventures Association Big Catfish Photo Contest after catching a ...

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.

A La Crosse fisherman pulled in a massive flathead catfish using nothing but his bare hands on the Black River near Brice ...

Dr. Nick Anderson, a pediatrician who lives in Neenah, is an avid catfish noodler. He learned noodling, or catching fish by ...

When Vince Wozniak went noodling for the first time, the rush of adrenaline had him hooked. “It’s the most primal fishing you can possibly do,” Wozniak, of Shreveport said. “You’re not using a pole or ...

Noodling, or fishing by hand, has been legal for catfish and bullheads in Wisconsin since 2020. Dr. Nick Anderson of Neenah is a passionate noodler and set the Wisconsin record with a 54.85-pound ...

Waist-deep in a cypress swamp is not an ideal place for second-guessing. Nor, at least for most sober people, is it the place to dangle one’s arm into murky holes and hope something large inside takes ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District visitors and staff received a surprise July 19 when a catfish grabbing guide service caught a near-record specimen at Arkabutla Lake in ...

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 ...

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I’ve fished for catfish for more than 40 years, and have come to learn that they are very unpredictable. One pond I frequent has channel and bullhead cats. I’ve caught a few while fishing for ...