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.

If I were to flip you the bird left-handed, which I sometimes do to mix things up, you’d notice that my middle finger is crooked, with a bulged knuckle. Why does it look like that? Catfish noodling.

HICKORY COUNTY, Mo. – Missouri conservation agents recently discovered illegal “noodling” boxes used to capture catfish in Pomme de Terre Lake, warning that the practice is not only forbidden, but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Will Brantley, a longtime noodler from Kentucky, with a big flathead. When a big flathead catfish bites your hand, your buddies ...

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 ...

A bill to make it legal to go “noodling” for catfish in Iowa lakes, streams and rivers is under consideration in the Iowa House. Representative Ray “Bubba” Sorensen of Greenfield sponsored the bill to ...

DES MOINES — Along with fly, ice and sport fishing, Iowans would be able to legally catch catfish with their bare hands under a bill being considered by state lawmakers. Noodling — a method of fishing ...

Cole & Jay shockingly grabbed a giant catfish while pool noodling. Senate to vote Friday on pathway to end shutdown Dallas Cowboys' Marshawn Kneeland died by suicide, police say Canada’s Economy ...

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No matter what you call it — hogging, grabbing, tickling, hand fishing — noodling catfish is an adrenaline-packed way to target trophy fish ...