Never in my life have I seen anything quite like this

Hard core country style fishing







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Noodling. It is like hand to hand combat style fishing. It's not legal everywhere and not the smartest thing to do in Snapping turtle, gator or moccasin territory.

 

Now that's how you fish

 

HOLY CRAP!

 

That's pretty cool.

 

I would think that it takes some gumption to swim down blind under water and use your arm like a worm to catch one of those things?!

It looks painful too- That guys arm was trashed.
They have barbs too. Ouch.

...I'll stick with my preferred method of using trusty fishing pole.

 

golly gee whiz.. they're cat fisting ain't they?

 

I watched a special on this some time ago. They actually said you had to be real careful of beavers. Apparently they are viscious when cornered and they can crush a mans skull with a bite. I'll stick with Dizzyliz in the boat with my fishing rod.

http://www.outdoorlife.com/outdoor/f...643406,00.html

"We all figured he'd gotten himself killed," McFarlin says as we loiter in his driveway, "but we didn't know for sure." Well, not until a search party pulled his waterlogged corpse from the Cimarron two days later. "His skull was crushed," remembers McFarlin. "He had his arm deep in a hole, and a beaver came up and crunched him while he was going at it."

 

WOW. Saw that style of fishing on Dirty Jobs. Not something I would try, but good for them.

 

gumption, aka hard liquor.