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.

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 country's largest noodling contest and festival kicks off Friday, June 14 in Pauls Valley and goes through Saturday, June 15. Noodling is catching catfish with just your hands, and it is News On 6 ...

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 ...

Join two adventurous British hosts on a journey across the Southern US as they try their hand at catfish noodling in Arkansas. Guided by expert Captain Josh and his family, they bravely plunge into ...

PAULS VALLEY — Keita Tanida and Hirotoshi Azuhata have scaled the horizons of the Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan, but for the mountain men, nothing was more glorifying than what waited for them 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 ...

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 ...

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 where ...

Fishing duo Cole and Jay catch a giant surprise while pool noodling catfish.