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Personally I’d prefer not to lose my fingers to gar and muskies…
Is this real? Like do people do this?
Yes, you can go fishing with just your bare hands if you’re skilled enough.
IIRC, this is from the worst case scenario survival handbook, but has been edited. This is a method of fishing, and you’re supposed to hook the gills like that.
It’s not that different than the way some people hunt bottom feeding fish like catfish, I guess it’s the same if you’re just bad at the catching part. In some places you’re just going to end up feeding leeches and mosquitoes though.
Aren’t catfish venemous? I was told never to handle a live one. Especially it’s back.
https://www.catfishedge.com/how-to-hold-catfish/
Apparently it’s mostly the small ones to watch out for. Don’t hold a baby catfish.
Ok hear me out. There is a real local fishing technique for carp when you wade into the water near the end of a dock and hold your fist underwater with worms sticking out between your fingers. You just sit very very still, holing your wormy fist a few inches off the bottom. A carp will eventually try to gobble your fist whole. Then you quickly lift the fish out of water and slam it on the dock to stun/kill it.
They have no teeth to speak of, so no injury to you.
They have no teeth to speak of, so no injury to you.
So it doesnt need to be your hand then, interesting… 🤔
I live in Florida there is a swamp near me I will try this tomorrow!
The last time I went to Florida I wanted to go hiking. We went to a local trail that had signs for alligators and pythons all over the place, and warning to avoid getting leprosy from armadillos. I don’t know how common these issues would be, but it made Canadian trails look like a walk in the park.
That’s the most Florida thing you could do, except for doing it on meth.
similar with catfish, but you can get bit with those. i think it’s called noodling
Just don’t put your noodle in there.
i ain’t kanye
Yes! That’s the term I was forgetting. I love to fish, but only do a very limted # of types. Spinner reels, baitcasters and icefishing. A friend I used to go Muskey fishing with used to do this who is the guy who introduced me to it. Not my thing, but funny.
That’s probably what the original image was about. The southern US has ‘catfisting’ which is pretty much the same thing.
