Steve Green pulls a catfish caught on one of his homemade limb lines from the Wakarusa River in Kansas. (Photo by Brent Frazee/Kansas City Star/MCT/Sipa USA Stock Photo - Alamy

Steve Green of Spring Hill, Kan., steers his boat down the Wakarusa River in eastern Kansas, headed for prime catfish water on May 31, 2011. About every stump or flooded tree within

Steve Green pulls a catfish caught on one of his homemade limb lines from the Wakarusa River in Kansas. (Photo by Brent Frazee/Kansas City Star/MCT/Sipa USA Stock Photo - Alamy

Outdoors: Missouri fishermen land proof that state still has catfish of legendary proportions