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

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I have to hear about this?

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I've had hummingbird feeders everywhere I've lived my entire life. Where I live now must be in the middle of a major flyway, because a couple days each year I'll have 100-200 hummingbirds fighting for a couple spots on the 3 or 4 feeders I have. One day we were drinking beer and watching the feeding frenzy when I thought I could catch one. My brother bet me $30. I slipped up to the feeder and of course all of them spooked. I stood there as still as possible and put my pointer finger up next to the feeding hole. They came back, one sat on my finger. I trapped his feet between my pointer and middle finger, thus catching the bird. Done it several times since. No joke. My Mother has some pictures of it somewhere I'll try to dredge up.