Skipper and Trent teach first-time noodlers the ropes with some easy holes and some tiny 4-pounders. They may not be monster catfish, but these babies can bite!
Famed hand-fishermen Skipper Bivins leads a group of city-slicker clients through the paces of Noodling - using your bare hands and feet to catch giant catfish!
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Jeremy Wade is known for his expertise with a rod and reel, but here he explains how he caught a dog-sized flathead catfish in the rivers of Oklahoma using nothing but his hands.
Jeremy Wade catches a Soldatov catfish, a relative of the gigantic Wels catfish in a Russian river. It's said to grow to a similar size, but very little is known about it.
Jeremy Wade is happy to find a kaluga sturgeon in Russia, but it's a guppy compared to how large these extremely rare and threatened fish traditionally get.
In this scene from "River Monsters: The Lost Reels," filmed in 2005, Jeremy Wade catches a mahseer on a river in India. For Jeremy, the catch is an unforgettable angling experience.
Jeremy Wade is in Japan to find a mythical, earthquake-causing fish called the "Namazu." He gets a tug on his line in a river near a city... is this the creature he is searching for?
On a remote river in Japan, Jeremy Wade is way out of his comfort zone. The monster he's after is an amphibian, so Jeremy must dive for it and catch it with his bare hands.
Jeremy Wade captures a Japanese giant salamander with his bare hands, then helps a scientist tag the animal for research before releasing this "fish with hands" back into the wild.
With a storm brewing Jeremy has a small window to bring in a huge fish and it turns out to be a Semutundu catfish! While it isn't the river monster he is after, it is quite an impressive catch!
Jeremy Wade catches a catfish in the Congo so powerful that it could possibly drag someone to their death. Just imagine what an adult-sized version of this fish can do.
Extreme angler Matt Watson met a catfish angler who battles with a piraiba catfish, a species that can grow to up to 9.5 feet long and weigh more than 500 pounds.
Jeremy Wade lands a catfish so large he has to lead it to land by boat so that he can see it up close. You wouldn't want this guy swimming around your feet!