This summer will be my 18th year catfish noodling. Maybe I’ve wrestled a thousand flatheads in that time, or maybe not quite that many. I don’t keep count.

May 29—By Barry Porterfield Pauls Valley's Okie Noodling Festival coming June 14-15 will again attract the interest of people living on the other side of the world. For this upcoming 24th ...

Tickets for the 2024 Okie Noodling Tournament and Festival To register for the noodling contest, noodlers must pay $45 on or before June 11, or $55 from June 12-13. On Friday, gate admission is $25.

Getting his noodling start at age seven, he fell in love, hook, line and sinker. “My uncles would take me out to the Red River and Cache Creek, stuff like that,” he said.

Brantley spots his son as he holds up a flathead. Noodling is fun as hell, a great spectator sport, and suitable for anyone who wants to give it a try. Natalie Krebs. Noodling catfish isn’t for ...

Noodling, also known as “hand fishing,” “grabbing,” “hogging” or “tickling,” is a means of catching a catfish using your hands insread of the traditional rod and reel.

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 ...

Tickets for the 2024 Okie Noodling Tournament and Festival. To register for the noodling contest, noodlers must pay $45 on or before June 11, or $55 from June 12-13.

Noodling fans will be up to their elbows in things to do at the 2024 Okie Noodling Tournament and Festival this weekend in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma.