Catching Catfish Bare Handed

There is nothing quite like the thrill of catching a 60-pound catfish with your bare hands, and that's just what Oklahoma fishermen have been doing for hundreds of years. Although you won't find the term in Webster's Dictionary, noodling is the ancient sport of submerging one's body in murky water and using fingers as wiggling bait to catch these underwater monsters.

Filmmaker Bradley Beesley's award-winning documentary OKIE NOODLING
chronicles the tradition from its roots as a Native American hunting technique to the present day status of this rural subculture.