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

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.