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.

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 ...

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 ...

The day was getting late, and the flathead catfish inside the holding tank secured to the bed of Nate Williams's maroon F-150 was, much like its captor, only getting more stressed out. It was five ...

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 ...

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 ...

IN THIRTEEN states, noodling is good dirty fun; in 37 others it may land you in trouble with the law. Hand-fishing for giant catfish is a primeval calling for some of the rougher outdoorsmen of the ...

If you've been craving a lake day and are looking for an adventure, grabbing a catfish out of its underwater hole with your hand might be the perfect activity. I did it, and let me tell you, grabbing ...

Today Noodling became legal in Georgia. Noodling involves the catching of massive catfish — creatures that can weigh up to 100 pounds (45 kilograms) — with the fisherman’s bare hands. These fisherman, ...