The adventure interview: Jeremy Wade 
By Jolyon Attwooll US Source: telegraph 1/1/2013
Jolyon Attwooll


Can you pick out a highlight from the new series?

One of the highlights was the fishing I did in Oklahoma in the summer, without any fishing tackle, purely using my hands as bait. The technique is known as noodling or hand-fishing, and is used for different catfish species. It only works at nesting time; the male catfish will find a hole in the bank or under a rock, which they will clean out. They’ll breed and look after the eggs and if anything intrudes on their space, they will chomp down on it. A normal reaction is to withdraw when confronted with that situation, but you have to try and overcome that.
 

In this particular case, I had to take a deep breath and disappear under water, thread my legs through a rusted car wreck – which I think a farmer had thrown in to stop the river eroding the bank too much. Someone was holding my ankles, and I was waiting for something the size of a dog to bite me, all of this in the pitch dark. I caught quite a large flathead catfish – over 50 pounds – using this technique.

 
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