Reply #9: Odd anglers feed their fists to giant catfish [View All]

[dajabr]

It's not a sport for the faint of heart.

Nothing gets the old ticker pumping like reaching under submerged rocks and into holes in the river bank hoping to feel something -- like a big fish -- snap shut on your hand.

"When they rotate to bite you, they will shake the whole bank," Wilson Countian Jim York said enthusiastically. "You stick your hand in there, and they'll mark you up."

York has the marks to prove it after his last "grappling" outing found a 63-pound flathead catfish in the Cumberland River.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/noodling.asp#add

These yahoos are friggin' nuts!