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 ...

In the deep South and parts of the Midwest, there exists an extreme type of fishing that has nurtured devotees and opponents alike. Noodling involves the catching of massive catfish — creatures that ...

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COLUMBIA, Mo. — The noodlers are revolting! And their uprising is being felt all the way from rural streams -- where they plunge bare-knuckled after big catfish -- to the Missouri Statehouse. Noodling ...

The Shell station is off exit 212. The sign says Wewoka, but the landscape says Joad: Okie to the core, low, undulating hills shot through with barbed wire and the dry washes of old erosion. Turn off ...

Green tufts of algae collect in the beards of Michael and Zac Linne as the brothers, with their bellies in the muddy water, slowly crawl along a shallow drainage ditch that cuts through a Dubois ...

WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — Here in Texoma, we’re blessed with a myriad of lakes and rivers, and in those bodies of water are a myriad of catfish. In this installment of On the Clock, we traveled to ...

LAKE OZARK, Mo. — Two Missouri men have been charged after using an illegal technique to catch catfish in the Lake of the Ozarks. Agents with the Missouri Department of Conservation recently received ...

Three years after Texas legalized bare-handed fishing for catfish - known as noodling - officials are wondering how the state can help. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department unveiled a survey ...

Fishing duo Cole and Jay catch a giant surprise while pool noodling catfish. Zac Taylor upset for officials pausing ...