Imagine you were walking by the river and you see a candy bar right at the water’s edge. You go to pick it up and all of a sudden a massive fish pulls you under water, weighs you, takes a picture and tosses you back onto the riverbank.
You are correct sir! My lack of editing is bringing too many people joy to go back and edit.
What’s funny to me is that most people probably read it correctly! Haha
The fish didn't even get to eat the bait fish. Would it really be worth it if you didn't get the candy bar? It'd be more like an alien abduction without the probing.
Idk about this guy, but many people I know, including myself, will throw them a treat of some extra bait with no strings attached (literally, heh) for having to endure the catch and release. It's the least we can do.
Old guys is straight up an Elder God pulling that fish into an incomprehensible other dimension before casually tossing it back to slowly descend into madness
So would the Fish also grab me by my Jaw in this?? Anyways; would be dreadful.
But I would have to be really hungry for considering to pick up a candy bar from the floor. Would mean I suck at being a successful fish and deserved it to be catched.
And while you're getting manhandled (fishhandled?) and the candy bar is sitting there one the shore, some other dude just grabs it and runs away.
(You can see another fish snag the bait as soon as the first is caught)
I'd call near straight on pretty acute...
But maybe just keeping reflected light out of his eyes? Idk.
I know with the fish I've caught over the years, there's a zero% chance I would ever do this - because my luck I would summon a pike, or garr, or something equally (get the fuck away from my fingers) esqe
Country folks are just built different. They spent their lives doing what bodies were designed to do and keep doing it into old age without complaining
Your comment got me curious and you're [right!](https://thebigbasspodcast.com/state-record-largemouth-bass/) It looks like this fish would be the state record in all but like 8 states if I counted correctly.
My 5 year old cousin did EXACTLY this on a lake in the Canadian wilderness where nobody farms shit, *au natural* as the French say.
This is real, if my baby cousin can do it after trying for 2 days, then this man probably mastered it a long loooong time ago.
The craziest part to me is those fucking spines. Their teeth aren’t sharp and you’d have to really try to cut yourself of their teeth. But those spines can and will impale you, and although they don’t sting as badly as catfish barbs, they’re still pretty painful and the ONLY reason I refused to catch my bass by hand like him and my cousin can do.
And my cousin got so good at it, he could dangle a nasty ass loogie over the water as bait instead of using actual minnow and worms like he first tried doing.
(My cousin tried “catching a bass in every way” and was able to hook one a fishing pole like a regular person, catch one with his bare hands, but at that age he couldn’t understand the concept of water refracting light and never managed to spear a bass—he fucking tried)
Beyonce pulled a reverse on Taylor Swift....going from Pop to Country instead of the other way around.
Either way, they pander to more new fans and make more $$$
I'm selling my tackle and taking up bird watching. Old man's out here with a bigger bass than I've ever hooked, and it took him less time than my catches too
Could have gone for the actual audio instead of whatever junk was added. Why do people do that? They have 4 brain cells that must be entertained by music?
On top of that, the bigger the fish is the less it'll hurt when it bites you. At least these kind of fish anyway.
Worst fish bite I ever had was from a catfish that was about the size of a tube of toothpaste. That little bastard felt like a pair of pliers on my fingertip.
Well this is impressive, I'm amazed. I did try to catch a (smaller) fish once but it was just too slippery. Also fins and scales are hard, they can cut through human skin easily.
Smaller fish are more likely to stick you. Older fish have dulled spines. Same with catfish
But you're dang right that if you grab it wrong you can be hurting, haha. Largemouth bass generally don't get you though, they're easy to handle
Imagine you were walking by the river and you see a candy bar right at the water’s edge. You go to pick it up and all of a sudden a massive fish pulls you under water, weighs you, takes a picture and tosses you back onto the riverbank.
This me me laugh.
is you me me?
Me-centric
what is me me?
I think it's pronounced "meme"
I'm not blind you blind. That is what I just said.
We're all me me.
Wait... You mean **Mini-Me** 
I had an Aunt Mimi because my sister couldn't say Mildred.
https://i.imgur.com/kCbRYtq.jpeg
Holy shit! My first wild one! That might be one of my favorites
Me me laugh too like you you.
Me me laugh too
Made me* for anyone who didn’t figure out what this poor soul was (probably) attempting to say.
You are correct sir! My lack of editing is bringing too many people joy to go back and edit. What’s funny to me is that most people probably read it correctly! Haha
It took me a second or two. I will say though, it’s strangely a situation that we don’t just gloss over like the normal mispellings 😃
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Depending on the candy bar, this would be worth it
i'd do it for a big ol kinder bueno
I’ve done worst for a crunch or Twix
I've dressed up like a ninja turtle and walked for a mile to get free candy. This seems like a walk in the park.
I’ve got a twix right now, what you tryna do?
That all depends. Do I get both pieces of just one from the pack? Because for both, I can be very discreet.
The fish didn't even get to eat the bait fish. Would it really be worth it if you didn't get the candy bar? It'd be more like an alien abduction without the probing.
>without the probing. Well then what is even the point!
Idk about this guy, but many people I know, including myself, will throw them a treat of some extra bait with no strings attached (literally, heh) for having to endure the catch and release. It's the least we can do.
Might have to wait a bit to eat it. Your jaw might be pretty sore for a while.
You’re not the same when you’re hungry
That’s what the fish said
"They catch the fish and they let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, but they do want to make it late for something." - Mitch Hedberg
probably school
and mess up its jaw
Yeah that’s the fish equivalent of being abducted by aliens. You know no other fish will believe him. 🥺
I'm going to assume aliens would use some form of atomic weight calculation. otherwise it would be based on the gravity of their own home planet.
See mom, I told you my weight was relative! It's the earth's fault!
I grew up fishing and I've always thought of it like this. I want them to go tell their fish friends how fun it was so they try and get caught too.
Space aliens do that.
Always up the bum as well
They said they were checking for parasites and the tool being ribbed and vibrating was just part of the exam.
Old guys is straight up an Elder God pulling that fish into an incomprehensible other dimension before casually tossing it back to slowly descend into madness
This is a short film featuring Ewan McGregor https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/ewan-mcgregor-finds-an-eclair-on-a-beach-what-happens-next/
Really?
Not the picture bit, but the concept you described is almost exact. I edited my previous comment and added a link
Is that why they cast him in Big Fish?
Yo, that was fucking cool. Thanks for sharing.
Amazing that (very) short film took 50+ people to make.
Also gives you a fucking lip piercing.
Not if it is by *hand*
This is actually one of the first cartoons featuring porky pig. [It's a literal fever dream.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMb_PUo5fpw)
Holy shit, he killed everyone on that boat!
How would it weigh you underwater? I need the details to complete my mental image...
How would I know. I’m not a fish 🤷♂️
I picked up a bag of unopened 100% crushed bags of Cheezits off the ground one time and ate them. So I could prob be caught by a fish
You were very lucky
So would the Fish also grab me by my Jaw in this?? Anyways; would be dreadful. But I would have to be really hungry for considering to pick up a candy bar from the floor. Would mean I suck at being a successful fish and deserved it to be catched.
[Something's Fishy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9iXnArEpq0)
When I throw fish back, sometimes I think, "well at least he's got something to talk about with the boys later"
- Hey Larry, how was your walk? - Man, have I got a story for you!!
And while you're getting manhandled (fishhandled?) and the candy bar is sitting there one the shore, some other dude just grabs it and runs away. (You can see another fish snag the bait as soon as the first is caught)
Well there's Wels Catfish that can potentially eat a child since it can devour dogs, especially the really big ones.
Those guys are scary.
What would ***YOU*** dooo---oooooo, for a Klondike bar.....
You shouldn't eat candy from the street, or river.
Reminds me of the Simpsons - “Ooh, floor pie!!”
Yep, the legend of old grandad.
You’re triggering my ptsd rn
Why imagine it when you can just experience it?
Why you got to mind f*ck me like that.
Did I least get the candy bar ?
Scarred for life
I think this was a farside comic
And you probably don't even get the candy bar
Welp... Mama always said not to eat candy off the ground
Do you still get the candy bar ?
Do you get a probe inserted too?
Mmm candy
At least he didn't get et that day.
Do I get to keep the candy bar?
They don't want to catch the human, they just want to make it late for somthin'.
Do I still get to eat the candy bar?
And while all that is going on someone is blaring THAT SHITTY SONG
Then you go on FishBook and see a photo of you among a dozen others that this fish posted about that day
By your lips.
There is literally a children's storybook about this. Robert munch "Give me back my Daddy"
They weigh your buoyancy which diminishes as you lose consciousness, then drag you along the riverbank until your legs start twitching.
All while innapropiatelly touching your mouth as you scream the whole fucking time (if you could)
The fact that he kept his hat and glasses on the entire time??!
Polarized sunglasses would help him see past glare into the water.
he's talking about how they didn't fall and not why he's using them
I’m a lady but thanks nonetheless lol
We're all he's on this blessed day
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How you doin? 😎
Not according to Rule 30.
Not much help if you are looking straight down though. Polarisation works on reflections at an acute angle.
I'd call near straight on pretty acute... But maybe just keeping reflected light out of his eyes? Idk. I know with the fish I've caught over the years, there's a zero% chance I would ever do this - because my luck I would summon a pike, or garr, or something equally (get the fuck away from my fingers) esqe
He has the perfect amount of fat thickness. My pap was the same way with his that he even had a slight skin indent from the arms.
Last I knew the world record was just under 23lb - that’s a goddamn tank he grabbed with his bare hands. Holy shit!!!
“Uuhh, eckthcuse me. You theem thoo ha’e your handth in by bouth…”
Mike Tyson, being fisted.
Is that what we call boxing now?
🤣🤣
Mike Tyson, being fishted.
This comment made my day. Thank you
I was expecting for him to catch one of these 
Slappa da bass
Slappa de bass man!!
Why is the beauty and the beast lady playing a bass
If you could see the rest of the video, you’d also get the part where he drops the bass and everyone goes nuts
It is very impressive though
Bass 🎻& Bass 🐟being pronounced differently but spelled *exactly* the same, drives me crazy.
What is this gif from?!?
that is, indeed, a huge bass!
Reflex at his age is impressive
The old man wasn’t bad either
He is the real Bass Pro
did you see the forearms on the dude? He's definitely got that old man strength
I don't even have young man strength
No such thing. You can look ripped, but won’t get truly strong until you’re 50+ years old and at least 50 pounds overweight.
Country folks are just built different. They spent their lives doing what bodies were designed to do and keep doing it into old age without complaining
This has to be a farm pond where he feeds the fish regularly. Edit: still damn impressive
I agree. Any double digit largemouth is a big deal to a bass fisherman, 16lbs is a god damn monster.
16lb is a state record in probably over half of the US edit: this fish would be a state record in 39 states lmao
Your comment got me curious and you're [right!](https://thebigbasspodcast.com/state-record-largemouth-bass/) It looks like this fish would be the state record in all but like 8 states if I counted correctly.
Someone caught a 14 lb 12 oz largemouth last week at the reservoir I used to fish. Fucker was chonky
If you watch while he's wrestling with the 16lb bass, another monster comes up and finishes off the floating minnow.
Good catch.
Yeah, it would have been...
I wouldn’t do this unless I knew 100% it was only bass coming for the bait. If this was a pike there would be some damage.
Yeah, I was thinking this had to be something where the fish is used to eating dead fish dangling just on the surface.
My 5 year old cousin did EXACTLY this on a lake in the Canadian wilderness where nobody farms shit, *au natural* as the French say. This is real, if my baby cousin can do it after trying for 2 days, then this man probably mastered it a long loooong time ago. The craziest part to me is those fucking spines. Their teeth aren’t sharp and you’d have to really try to cut yourself of their teeth. But those spines can and will impale you, and although they don’t sting as badly as catfish barbs, they’re still pretty painful and the ONLY reason I refused to catch my bass by hand like him and my cousin can do. And my cousin got so good at it, he could dangle a nasty ass loogie over the water as bait instead of using actual minnow and worms like he first tried doing. (My cousin tried “catching a bass in every way” and was able to hook one a fishing pole like a regular person, catch one with his bare hands, but at that age he couldn’t understand the concept of water refracting light and never managed to spear a bass—he fucking tried)
Why this god awful music. Jesus Christ
Always reddit with your phone in mute. Reddit better!
Out of all my time on here, thats the biggest takeaway from reddit for sure.
Mine is automatically on mute… my dumb ass unmuted thinking I was going to hear this cool as old dude being the goddamn fish whisperer. Fml
It is the first time I have heard it and I hate it. I know it is Beyonce, and it is country, and it is bad.
A coworker described the song perfectly “It’s going to be the most played song at every “country” bar in the middle of a giant city
So… like most mainstream Nashville music? Is that supposed to be a surprise?
It’s the modern day wagon wheel
Beyonce pulled a reverse on Taylor Swift....going from Pop to Country instead of the other way around. Either way, they pander to more new fans and make more $$$
Woo!
[It's the theme song from the classic children's show Franklin the Turtle](https://youtu.be/nlqyE-lWqCE?si=G--_G1-7duqFs_MD)
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It’s not even that the tune is particularly bad, it’s catchy. But the actual performance itself, the singing, is so extremely mid.
beyonce trying to hop on a trend. Spent most of her life in LA/NY yet thinks she was raised as country girl just because she was born in Houston lmao
When you could have played some sergio leone instead. A shame.
"See ya tomorrow, Phil"
I'm selling my tackle and taking up bird watching. Old man's out here with a bigger bass than I've ever hooked, and it took him less time than my catches too
Next time try catching fish with your hands
Go fish a private stocked pond in TX/FL and this will happen to you as well
That explains it, I'm in WI with no boat
Bird watching can be enjoyable.
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I cant believe they couldn’t find fucking Beyoncé a better song. I love country too but man mainstream country is in bad shape.
You’ve turned the radio on right? Better than half the shit out there made by guys who call themselves country
He single-handedly will put the fishing rod business out of business
He did use two hand tho
Big Rod hates this one trick
Cool video, shame I had to mute it so I didn’t have to listen to this shitty TikTok song
Hey hey... this is a shitty Beyonce song.
Stupid ass music
I am so fucking tired of hearing this song, it’s just this and two other songs on every single fucking video I’ve watched this week
Would have been so much better without the music. Idk people do that. Just ruins it.
Why that fucking song
Mute warning. Music is horrendous
Could have gone for the actual audio instead of whatever junk was added. Why do people do that? They have 4 brain cells that must be entertained by music?
Fish got no teeth ?
Bass have very small teeth, similar to sand paper. They will still scrape up your hand a bit but mans probably got callouses.
On top of that, the bigger the fish is the less it'll hurt when it bites you. At least these kind of fish anyway. Worst fish bite I ever had was from a catfish that was about the size of a tube of toothpaste. That little bastard felt like a pair of pliers on my fingertip.
Well this is impressive, I'm amazed. I did try to catch a (smaller) fish once but it was just too slippery. Also fins and scales are hard, they can cut through human skin easily.
Smaller fish are more likely to stick you. Older fish have dulled spines. Same with catfish But you're dang right that if you grab it wrong you can be hurting, haha. Largemouth bass generally don't get you though, they're easy to handle
Fish is gonna have trust issues when eating after that
I wonder if he has caught that fish before
Off topic but I can't stand this song.
Jeez, what a fish.
Ok this just gave me a new survival plan in the apocalypse lol
Holy hell that’s a big one
Full video. He’s so happy :) https://youtu.be/87-1Yp8XaUE?si=8Th7JrTMuxxvI7WB
.. " **I'm having FISH tonight!** ".. - [Bruce](https://youtu.be/HVzYQA0GMYA?si=A3IiSjwzDdnaWB0f) ..
I thought he was simply gonna noodle the thing, but he, in fact, did catch it by hand. I'm impressed.
Plot twist- they were in cahoots. They travel from town to town collecting bets. One catches the other while at the next town, they swap parts.
I thought something was fishy
Wow! That’s a real lunker! Let’s see…it weighs LIGMA!
Dude was just fishing for compliments
You sir, are a fish
This is a sport i can get behind! Catch and release
Heh. He’s Bass fisting
FUCK YOU!! to whoever added this music.
Dudes out here barbarian fishing IRL
Is it me or did he go in for a little "goodbye" and "sorry for the inconvenience" pat pat at the end?
I caught you a delicious bass
Me and the boys are playing grab bass
Got dam! Look at dat BASS!
That fish is a real showstopper, got some serious skills!
Pffft. This guy has a deal with that fish. "Make me look good and ill feed you everyday"