you put your bare hands in holes that you might think a cat fish will be in...with any luck they bight down on your hand and you grab them and pull them out. just saw soething on them last night. they said catfish will try to down you by holding on and dragging you under dont know if you've ever been biten by one but your not gettig out easy. i want to try it one day....well at least if i have someone with me if i get dragged under. do you want to try it or were you just wondering?

I love watching people doing it but you can count me out on participating!! You never know if your gonna put your fingers right in front of a snapping turtle!

I have always heard it called noodling. Or grabbling.

Yeah its noodling. Stick your fist in their mouths and get ready.

Here in Ark we call it "Hoggin"", same thing.

Noodling is a southern US practice of fishing for catfish using only bare hands. Many other names, such as catfisting, grabbling, graveling, hogging, dogging, gurgling, tickling and stumping, are used in different regions for the same activity. Noodling is currently legal in eleven states.
The term "noodling", although today used primarily towards the capture of flathead catfish, can and has been applied to all hand fishing methods, regardless of the method or species of fish sought. Noodling as a term has also been applied to various unconventional methods of fishing, such as any which do not use bait, rod & reel, speargun, etc., but this usage is much less common.