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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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!
A team of New Yorkers work together to pull up a 70-pound flathead catfish. This happens to be the same catfish that Skipper himself has been looking for all season!
This family teams together in order to catch a monster catfish with an attitude to match: a 65-pounder to go along with the 70-pounder they caught earlier!
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.
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!
The red-tailed catfish has an interesting trait. When taken out of water it can actually breathe air for a short period of time. Jeremy Wade brings it in to the boat to take a closer look!
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.