Hillbilly Handfishin' - Noodling a 70-Pound Catfish

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Published on Aug 23, 2011 by

Watch More Thrilling, Hilarious Clips: http://animal.discovery.com/videos/hillbilly-handfishin/#mkcpgn=ytapl1 | A team of New Yorkers work together to pull up a 70-pound flathead catfish!

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  • is he giving birth or what/.

  • i hate these fake southern accent narrators...

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  • Well this programming is gone down hill...

  • Dumbest shit I have ever seen I think. That ain't no 70lb cat, 45 maybe.

  • @SUPAFLiiFiiGhter- cool i was just wondering how this works.

  • wow huge

  • ces his hand inside a discovered catfish hole. If all goes as planned, the catfish will swim forward and latch onto the fisherman's hand, usually as a defensive maneuver, in order to try to escape the hole. If the fish is particularly large, the noodler can hook the hand around its gills.

    Most noodlers have spotters who help them bring the catfish in, either to shore or to their boat; noodling in pairs is considered important for safety, and also makes it a more social activity, with noodling

  • @ed11561 - Although the concept of catching fish with only the use of the arm in the water is simple enough, the process of noodling is more complicated. The choice of catfish as the prey is not arbitrary, but comes from the circumstances of their habitat. Flathead catfish live in holes or under brush in rivers and lakes and thus are easy to capture due to the static nature of their dwelling. To begin, a noodler goes underwater to depths ranging from only a few feet to up to twenty feet and pla

  • Stop whining!

  • WHAT FAKE HORSESHIT!! Nothing like pulling up a catfish with a string already tied thru his mouth & gills.AND DUMB FUCKERS BELIEVE THIS IS REAL.

    DUMBING DOWN AMERICA- and they don't have a long way to go.TV has been doing it for years & Shit "Reality shows" like this just prove it. ASSHOLES.

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