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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In Louisiana, some people like to fish by sticking their arm into murky water, feeling around for a catfish, and grabbing them by the mouth. A new law legalizing it goes into effect Aug. 1. And now to ...

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