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just saw a special on this and it looked really interesting but not very smart....on man vs wild bear grylls got a 20lb catfish doing this..... anybody crazy enough to try this????. for those who never heard of it, its when you use your hand and finger as a lure and shove your hand in a big hole or log in the water and see if you can get a catfish to bite it....just think of all the snapping turtles and stuff you could find....

Alot of people in my area do it.My friends always try to get me to go with ‘em,I cant do it too many other critters out there.They do catch some giants though

ive seen it done but i dont think its for me! i remember my grandpa tellin me that he and a buddy of his were out doing that one day and his buddy grabbed a muskrat by the business end and ended up loosing his hand from gang green. but ya know those old school guys tho...he just switched hands and kept goin

I have actually done this before. Its not fun. Infact it was one of the most scariest things I have ever done. I will never do it again.

absolutely not, the big cats are scary enough, then there are the unknown critters....and i aint putting my hands within 100 yards of where a snake may be...other can play that game, i like it inside the boat or on a bank better.

If I had too many beers is me I might consider. That is just nuts! Whats next? Jumping out of a tree stand and grabbing a 240 lb buck by the rack? I would love to see that!

I just don’t know if I could stick my hand and arm into a hole under water not knowing what might be down there.  I like all my fingers right where they are.  But it does look cool.

I used to go noodling every summer with a couple of buddies.  We always caught a lot of 5-8s out of a place called Oakland Mills.  It had a small dam and some rapids about 30 yards down from that.  The biggest one we ever pulled out was a 45lb flathead.  That was kinda crazy...nothing like a pissed of cat in running water and all you have holding on to him is your hands...and in my buddies case...his arm...LOL...he got pretty tore up on that fish.  My hands were really bad, but rather that than the elbows down being tore up.  I decided that we should wear welding leathers after that one....We never did though.

KPD6373 - 01 September 2008 08:40 AM

If I had too many beers is me I might consider. That is just nuts! Whats next? Jumping out of a tree stand and grabbing a 240 lb buck by the rack? I would love to see that!

actually one of my friends actually jumped out of a tree on to a 8 point buck and cut its throat with a knife