June and July are the prime months for catfish noodling in Oklahoma, although the recent flooding around the state has interrupted much of the hand-fishing. "It is making it a little more tough, ...

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 ...

PAULS VALLEY, Okla. (AP) - Heather Bivins’ knuckles had been bleeding badly from battling a big blue catfish all the way from Cotton County to the stage of the Okie Noodling Tournament. The big blue ...