re: Who here has legitimately caught a fish with just their bare hands?

I was walking along bank on one of the ponds behind Fourchon beach and I flushed a flounder which beached himself and I picked him up does that count?

when i was in college we had this neat little contraption that fit in a skoal can that you hooked up to a battery. made the catfish float to the top and lay on thier sides, some even swam up on the bank, you could pick and choose the ones you wanted.














whats the statute of limitations on something like this anyway??

First fish I ever caught was with my bare hands.


I was 2, maybe 3. We were fishing perch at the boat launch by my parrian's shop.

I was looking and saw one swimming close and I snuk up on it and just snagged em!

I still remember the look on my dad's face




I also caught a monster perch from Vortex Springs in Florida on my checkout dive. I just kinda crept up and grabbed him. Everyone tried but failed... not this guy. I threw him up on the dock and everyone cheered

Hummingbirds are protected under the migratory bird act, I don't think I'd ever talk about catching one. Now they are pretty bold suckers and they have landed on both myself and my camera in the past.

One of my friends is a big wildlife nut and can catch all manner of fish, reptiles and amphibians while walking along a creek bed. He's even done it with 10k worth of camera equipment balanced on one shoulder.

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Hummingbirds are protected under the migratory bird act, I don't think I'd ever talk about catching one.

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I have a collection permit. I was checking the health of a couple which I thought showed signs of disease. They were fine. I released them.

I was around 10 years old when I lived in Scotland... I had watched a special on "tickling" trout which is a method they used to catch trout bare handed. Fast forward a few months and we took a school field trip to this adventure place. We were doing some "search and rescue" game in the woods, and we broke up into groups. I was with a student teacher and one of my other classmates when I spotted a brook trout swim upstream and then underneath the bank (there's an overhang where the water passes through). I walked over and gently stuck my hand under the bank and to my surprise he was there. I "tickled" his belly with my fingers gently and he rested right in my palm. Pulled him up and showed the girls before putting him back in.

I too have done this with a rainbow trout, but i think something was wrong with it because it put up little to no resistance until it got out of the water.

I have. It was dying of old age. And I'm not even gonna say what it was because you'll call me a liar.

I caught a flying fish with my foot.



Well, he landed on my foot, but I'm counting it.

Does free gaffing count as with your hands?