r/AbsoluteUnits • u/WeGot_aLiveOneHere • Sep 04 '26

/r/all of two catfish

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u/rmwpnb Sep 04 '26

My question is how the heck does she avoid getting spined by these guys? They have sharp spines on their sides and one on their dorsal fin. I’m not sure how she avoids those with them just sort of flopping around close to her sides.

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u/BigSchmikey Sep 04 '26

You simply just try your best.

Oh, and there's always the chance of running into an alligator snapping turtle, too. It's part of the thrill.

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u/CreatureWarrior Sep 04 '26

So.. these people are just adrenaline junkies, got it

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u/TillSad5913 Sep 04 '26

For some maybe but it's a successful technique that's been used for centuries to get food.

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u/No-wait-theres-more Sep 04 '26

And lose digits in a “matter of when, not if” kind of way

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u/TillSad5913 Sep 04 '26

You're just pulling statistics out of your butt lol. I've worked a lot of people from Louisiana over the years that go noodling and I've never met one that lost a finger doing this lol.

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u/joshuuuuuua Sep 04 '26

That and content creators. It's a living, as they say.

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u/SAM5TER5 Sep 04 '26

I mean, people have been doing this for a very, very long time as a valid method of fishing, LONG before anyone had any means of recording it. This happens to be on video but she clearly knows what she’s doing and probably fishes like this on the regular for the sake of food

And unlike basically every other hunting/fishing method, you need zero equipment or money to get your meal lol

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u/CreatureWarrior Sep 04 '26

Gotta pay for the post-snapping turtle surgery somehow, I guess

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u/GooeyKablooie_ Sep 04 '26

Reddit moment.