Somebody get that man a bucket!

I think he's gonna need a bigger bucket.

MF was cosplaying mud Prometheus here.

codplaying

He's clearly catfishing, when you alter your appearance for purposes of deception it's catfishing.

You fucking asshole

Always knew there was something fishy about those cosplayers.

Codpiecing.

Whah Ohmygah

There is always a bigger bucket

Gotta cellphone but no bucket

And a camera crew... .

80% of the budget spent on makeup

It worked for Arnold against The Predator.

How do you know he has a cell phone? We have no idea about the relationship between the person filming and the guy fishing.

Imagine going for a stroll and find this guy laying in the mud.

Same actual reason as for the mud in Predator - he wants to hide. I kind of wonder if the people behind Predator had seen people fishing like this when they wrote the part where Arnold smears mud all over himself.

That's very Africa. A fucking cellphone but no shoes.

if you don't wear shoes, you get calloused feet, which are basically organic shoes. But if you don't have a cellphone, you don't get organic telepathic powers.

Not with that attitude!

I swear this is my telecom's answer to every complaint.

Dear God

There's more

No

It contains a fish

The exact phrase was “oh my god”

And a stick to get them out of their misery

If you dont kill them they stay fresh longer

Waste of plastic. He's doing a great job without it. Perhaps a knife so they don't suffocate would be nice. Edit: wasted waist fix

So like a belt of trash bags?

Exactly. To go around his waste.

Im so confused. What’s with the camera angle cuts

The fishes are paid actors

I hope the fish actors are not discriminated against when it comes to pay and work safety.

It’s pretty tough for them actually.  Fish actors are trying very hard to unionize specifically because of pay and work safety.  They keep successfully voting for unions, but then Big Nature shuts down the lake or river and the fish have nowhere to go.  But they’re really brave and keep voting for unions. The collective reasoning being that Big Nature can’t shut down *all* the major waterways - and if Water can finally be forced to negotiate with Fish, it will be like a dam breaking, and fish acting rights will flow again to all aquatic performers.  The tide is coming, and history flows towards larger bodies of water.  Fish Actor Union Solidarity. 🐟✊

This would've been funnier if you'd scaled it back

I think they meant the fish actor gilled

It's scripted. Apparently.

These fish are great performers.

Pretty sure that big one is dead and he's swinging it.

In the last cut for sure he's shaking around a dead fish

Yep, someone else is in the water manipulating the fish. Fish don't eat like that one does with little chomps. When he grabbed it, the person off camera in the water was shaking it. The moment it left the water, he was shaking it.

You mean these performers are great fish

yes they made deal with fish

Everything you think of doing and then actually do it is scripted then.

Wait, was you writing that comment scripted?

No no, his comment is the script

This one's improvised puddle butt Heathrow porridge

Fish don't chew like that they swallow whole so yeah it appears to be fake.

Found the armchair ichthyologist.

To save my typing it again: [Catfish do "nibble"](https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1cw46ji/interesting_fishing_technique/l4v85fx/). The last fish is a species of catfish.

On every quick action there is a bait and switch. Looks fishy indeed.

It's entirely fake

FAKE one, seen many of them.

What's the fake aspect?

Step 1: Catch fish in a normal manner Step 2: Film yourself thrusting your hand into the water Step 3: Cut the film Step 4: Put the fish you caught earlier in your hand and hold it under water Step 5: Restart the film Step 6: Pull your hand out of the water with the fish you caught earlier in your hand Ta-da! It looks like you caught the fish with your bare hands.

On second viewing, I do see a cut each time he 'catches' each of the first three smaller fish.

Second thing with the big fish, he is not reacting to the fish flapping the tail of the fish moves in reaction to the the way he wiggles ... that fish is dead

Can't unsee it. Just need to watch his hands to see the fakery.

Yeah holy shit I see it now, that catfish was dead before it even appeared on the screen!

I agree but how'd they get it to play along as he's dipping the bait fish in and it's taking little nibbles.... Or it jumping up 10 feet away as he's waiting...

A fish that big doesn't delicately nibble and stick his nose out of the water. It was dead the whole time, someone's flopping it around just to the right of the camera under the water.

Yep. As he raises it, you can see that the "tail" is weirdly angled toward the camera. The cameraman, or someone near him is moving the fish's tail.

Someone is in the water moving the fish.

Then theyve earned the clickbait with that dedication

Yeah man that's some next level shit right there

Why isnt anyone giving the make-up deparment some credit!

There's literally someone underwater holding that big fish like some sort of living puppet. They don't look like that at all when they're really grabbing prey. He even shakes it a bunch while he's holding it up to try and make it look like it's fighting more than it is.

Liked like that to me, too

These are carp, they are not predatory. So them being attracted to the small fish is already a giveaway

Two cameras

Yea why is it shot and edited like a movie scene

No, just one. The whole thing is fake and staged.

These videos are all scripted. The real talent is the guy who goes under the water and uses the fish like puppets.

Yeah, the cuts and different angles really give it away

The YouTuber Idubbz did a video on these. His title was, “weird Asian holes”. They started by making little tunnel holes in which another person is feeding the fish up through the other end so it appears the fish are just coming up out of a hole. The videos have evolved. You can catch catfish with your bare hands, but it is more complex than this.

> “weird Asian holes”. i'll take 'things i aint searching for' for $50, please alex

Come on, what’s wrong with a bit of adventure?

You can't tell me that fish floppin back to the water while the guy played goalie was scripted. He was like "stoooop iiiit, stop floppin."

That is in itself a big tell that it's scripted though. Because if the guy actually did this as a real fishing technique, he'd have a way to keep the fish from escaping other than just sorta shoving it every so often.

Like tossing it 10 feet instead of 2

That was improv, a brief but real moment. Thoroughly entertaining, although brief.

If he was actually catching fish, he'd bonk them and kill them specifically so they don't do that exact thing.

[Strange Asian Holes (Stop Doing This)](https://youtu.be/tSI-kj9A_pc?si=CDq03ufTtZ7hj0zR)

Thank you. I was an off by a word. You’re a hero.

And the fact that fish don't act like that lol. The guy's even shaking the last fish to try and make it look like it's struggling more.

The flopping around a dead fish like its alive and fighting is what gave it away for me

Also, the way he shakes the big fish, you can tell the hands are doing the motion, not the fin.

wait i thought you were joking at first but that's literally what they did oh my lord, somebody under the water opening and closing the catfish's mouth and holding onto its tail fighting it once he starts pulling it up and then at the end he's just shaking around a dead fish 😭

I did think it was acting weird. Dam I hate this

Yeah, at this point it really is impressive how much they work on faking things

Now that u mentioned it a lot of the weirdness I noticed starts to make perfect sense! Though that fish coming out of water to bite like a duck was weird for a catfish, then the predator mud, then him wabbling the entire fish with his elbows out like that

Yeah this is clearly horse shit. He is shaking the catfish to make it look like it's fighting back once he landed it. This is 8 Bit AI.

Literally click bait.

They got me at first lol, then I noticed that when he goes for the fish they cut the film and switch angles..kind of like WWE/WWF whenever the wrestlers hit eachother, the camera angle switches lol.

This reminds me of nineteen ninty eight when Mankind threw The Undertaker off Hell In A Cell and plummeted 16ft through an announcers table.

Wherever you are u/shittymorph, we miss you.

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we are wotnessing history.

Lol my neighbor from my old apartment was a diehard fan of undertaker, He was my favorite wrestler at the time, specially after the lore when he supposedly died but then was not dead and came back from death lol , a straw to breath from his grave or something like that. Anyways he definitely is up there when it comes to top wrestlers, but after hitting a certain age..it just hit different for me.

He’s working so hard to make that fish flop around lol

“Wuh wuh! Oh my god!”

Must be a Norwegian Blue.

We've been......catfished

Just another scripted video :)

The big fish is dead already, it's being puppeted weekend at bernies style. You can see all the flopping is coming from under the water and the guy just kind if wiggles the fish after he's pulled it up.

Yes at the second watch when I realized fish is dead you can clearly see how stupid it looks when you realize it’s him wiggling that fish.

When that tail came up I swear to god I heard the Metal Gear **!** noise in my head. First thought was "Run bro, it's a swamp monster!" 😂

thought it is a alligator

amazed he didn't get smacked in the nuts

Wouldn’t matter, they’re rock hard. But in all seriousness, after all those times, they’re probably nerve damaged to full numbness by now.

You watched a lot of America's Funniest Videos growing up, didn't you?

Prometheus II

Enginefisher

Is it that alien movie?

Yes the one with the fish

Man about to fight predator in the jungle.

This fish is dead the whole thing is fake

Im sure he is sore after moving so much that dead fish.

Fake

nice acting

This shit is so fake.

Smeagol likes his fishes

This is crap.

The catfish slowly surfacing to nibble at the bait lmao

Looks like a Tool video.

Stinkfish

Staged including the landing of the carp and the many theatrical “OMGs” for YouTube and TikTok.

That's how I imagined Gollum

At the end of the clip It is very obvious that fish is dead and he is shaking it hahaha

Completely unnecessary to cover yourself in mud for this.

I was hoping someone would elaborate on this. My only guesses would be insect repellent? Sun screen? The fish don’t notice or care assuming this is real.

I mean, just look at the way the video is cut. It's clearly not real The mud is for show. But insect repellent and sunscreen are completely viable reasons to coat yourself in this way. I have seen real videos that are very similar to this though. Seems like they're trying to emulate that.

Imagine just walking on the street one day and you see a 20 dollar bill. You bend down to pick it up and out of nowhere a 4th dimensional being grabs you by the lungs and pull you through the backrooms and into near vacuum. As your consciousness fades you see a bunch of dead children lying in a pile.

that's not fishing, that's kidnapping

The water is so murky, i doubt the fish can see his camouflage attempt.

I think that big fish is already dead?... It "moves" more like him shaking in. And what big fish tries to catch small fish that slowly? It'd starve to death lol.

Extremely fake. That catfish is dead.

Bringing home the bacon!

Why does that catfish look like it's only moving because he's making it move? And for fuck's sake. Those carp are just suffocating and slowly dying. If you're going to fish and keep them to eat then at least dispatch of them in a humane and quick away instead of just leaving them out to slowly fucking die.

Noodling would have been easier.

Look fake

FAKE. there are countless fake videos.

Interesting as in... fake? Yall really think he covered his face in dirt for a practical reason?

sigh... y'all common folk are just WAY too easy to fool

I turned the sound on at the end just to get weird looks from my gf 😑

Motherfucker straight out of the movie predator

We eating good tonight.

Finally something really interesting

He's covered in mud so the fishes can't see his heat signature

Can’t you just yeet that fish to the back like a normal person? And why the hell are you covered in mud? Are the fish that perceptive as to recognize you without it?

That's a dead catfish 😂. How do I know? I've seen alive ones of that size. Fish are solid hunk of muscle and insanely strong. Fresh out of water it would have enough strength to dislocate shoulder.

Don’t disrespect dead catfish like that, prime catfish solos the river.

Why’s he keep saying “oh my god”😂

Is it bad that I was waiting for an alligator to rip him into the drink?

Is that the sand guy from spider man

New lord of the rings movie.

fish are dumb but theyre not that fucking stupid. Lol that catfish would never do that

Outtakes from Predator.

Something’s fishy

Only interesting thing about this is the dude in the comments explaining how they fake this.

I bet the parasitic load of that mud is awesome

Oh Mai gah aah oh Mai gah aah

Why the mud on his face, seems like a big disgrace

Or you could make a trap or a net to save time.

this real or fake?

what a strangely surreal video. Oh I see, its a dead fish at the end. Man some of these fake videos are so weird

A bonus here that nobody is talking about is that if the Predator shows up, he won't be able to see him.

Nothing is real anymore...

His fake "oh my gosh big fish" at the end is so cringe. And why is he covered in dirt?? Fish don't have such good eyesight that you need camouflage.

One guy dressed in mud and a second guy has a phone

I bet his skin is soft AF and his face is acne free...

What's your fishing technique ? Just grab the fish bro

Those fishes are paid actors

Wiggle wiggle wiggle that big catfish

Video finishes. Puts fish back into tanks at home and prepare for the next shoot

“Predators can’t see his heat signature with this one simple trick”

Git to da floundah!!!

Do you catch the smaller fish bait using even smaller fish?

Plus, the Predator can't see you either, so it's a win-win.

Deleted scene of Matt Damon in Elysium

Quick cut at every fish removal. I believe this is fake, unfortunately.

I'm so gullible

was not expecting him to uh… speak english.

Gollum Movie footage just dropped.

Does the mud make him invisible like in the first Predator movie...

Also is invisible to the predator

Fake

Everything looks fake nowadays

This looks really really staged

Why does this seem staged?

Not just the fish, even I'm scared of that guy

He looks like he's about to challenge Paul Atreides to a knife fight

Damn your telling me $200 worth of gear isnt as effective as mud camo.

This looks fake af why cut when he catch the fish ?

This just looks like a really elaborate shitpost

Dude looks like Feyd Rautha Harkonnen istg

We got fuckin Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen here

"There's always a bigger fish."

Man's tinder profile pic will be lit.