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Sooooo cute! In this YouTube home video, two little girls go wading in a shallow creek...and one of them goes fishing with her bare hands!
Readers, do you think this is real?
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 15)
8-13-2009 @ 6:20AM
Janette said...Those little girls knew exactly where they were going. watch the video again if you didn't see that. Such a shame, that would've been cute
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8-13-2009 @ 7:47AM
johnyo628 said...you are 100% right on this not being real or doctored up...i did a frame by frame and i was very disappointed the camera has been stopped and restarted but there can be no dispute the girls seemed to have fun fishing it out
8-13-2009 @ 8:29AM
Cat said...My husband fishes and he said if this is a salmon then it could be true ..they die after they spawn or they get stuck if they dont swim up/down stream. she's holding it by the stomach so it cant bite her cause salmon have teeth ..could be real kind of blury so cant say for sure but i'll say yes.
8-13-2009 @ 8:29AM
deb said...if it's real they shouldn't eat it,because it was to weak to get away. spanning salmon can be picked up out a spring or brook
8-13-2009 @ 8:59AM
mike said...man was that a big carp!! little girl just picked it up and bear hugged it! wish i was able 2 catch that carp on a light tackle rod! all depends what time of year if the carp was spawning.. girl definately went straight 2 fish and picked it up so it looked real to me..
8-13-2009 @ 9:02AM
Janette said...That fish was exhausted. Maybe it had just given birth or something - it wasn't even wiggling. I believe it is not doctored, but it looked like salmon looked after they've been spawning. Maybe it was old or sick? lol. We used to catch smelt like that, by hand, in Lake Erie in the 70's because they were sick and some kind of disease.
8-13-2009 @ 9:01AM
staciep said...You ask if it's real or not ??? Hummmm ... somehow I find this amazing ... not the fact that this little girl caught this huge fish ... yet we never blink an eye, at someone whos found a picture of Jesus or the Blessed mother on bottom of a frying pan, or on a potato chip ... yet something that is so pure an innocent as a child catching a fish with her bare hands, we question ? I'm not doubting the fact that there was probably something wrong with the fish maybe, or as the other person said, a salmon that had been spawning .... all things are possible. But do I believe its true ? Yes ! By all means, I honestly believe this little girl caught that fish.
8-13-2009 @ 9:04AM
dvprct said...That fish is near death. She might have found it floating near the surface, or maybe her dad planted it there. If that fish were healthy, it would've been flopping so vigorously she wouldn't have been able to hold it for more than a few seconds, if that long. This is certainly doctored.
8-13-2009 @ 9:16AM
Ernie said...Since when do fish have black noses? Towards the end, you can see what she's really picking up: A dog with visible legs and a wagging tail.
8-13-2009 @ 9:43AM
Cory said...I TELL YA , IT LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING MY GIRLS WOULD DO. KIDS ARE NATURALS. THEY WILL PICK UP ANYTHING AN SUCEED AT IT WHEN WE CANT.
8-13-2009 @ 9:32AM
A.M. said...I guarentee that was a huge carp. It is very evident what type of fish it is when she picks it up out of the water. And I can almost guarentee it is real. Anyone that has ever been around carp that large, in a stream that small knows that if they get trapped, like this particular one did, by a rock dam or other obstruction, they are almost too dumb to backup and go around. And you can literally, as this girl did, bend down and pick them up. Most likely the fish was spawning and was exhausted. And Carp by nature are not fierce fish, nor are they fast movers. So my verdict is yes, this is real.
8-13-2009 @ 9:25AM
Denise said...I agree, theres just so much wrong with that tape. Like the images of the girls are sharper then the focus of the fish. Its hard to make out the eyes and head. Even though the girls seem to be getting closer to where the camera is. But its cute anyways. Looks like a brook I would have been playing with my sister in when we were that age.
8-13-2009 @ 9:42AM
Jey said...That was a big carp or sucker for sure...and it is possible to catch them or snag them especially in streams when they run. The fish look like it was swimming up stream against the current. These fish will swim for hours up stream aainst the current and jump for hours to get over a rock ledge like that.. so it's possible the fish was just tired from coming up stream the girls saw him and wanted play with it. Real dumb to stage such a thing if that's the case.
8-13-2009 @ 9:44AM
Blobbie said...The clip was very fake. The fish is not moving except for it's tail, which is swinging back and forth, and it's mouth, which is opening and closing. Watch the last 5 seconds over and over again and you will see how fake this is. It has to be some sort of puppet. Also, she is holding it in such a way that her right hand can easily be inside! Additionally, the clip is extremely blurred, probably so you cannot see how fake the fish looks in real life.
I bet that they planted the puppet fish there. This is totally fake.
8-13-2009 @ 10:11AM
Cpt. Jam es Holden said...These little girls new that this CARP (NOT SALMON) was there.It really dosnt make any difference, its still very cool to be a kid and catch a big CARP like that.
8-13-2009 @ 10:34AM
josiah said...The girl is small and the fish is big. I think a fish that size would be heavy for a child and she held it in one arm. And the younger child doesn't show any interest in it. I don't know.
8-13-2009 @ 10:32AM
JL said...The fish would have been flapping so fast that she would not be able to control it...This fish is either fake or smokin weed or almost dead.
8-13-2009 @ 10:40AM
Washingtonian said...Many a fall we caught Salman by hand when they were spawning and too tired and near death to put up a fight. It's easy to do, but that looked like a large fish for that little girl to carry. Maybe a hoax, but could be a true story.
8-13-2009 @ 10:45AM
Dawn said...I agree and when she picks the fish up the tail only moves because of her walking. Anyone that has been fishing knows that a fish will not hold that still.
8-13-2009 @ 11:07AM
Efrain said...Despite been a little blurry. Based on my fiching experience, I will say the girl caught a grass eating carp. That type is a Buffalo Carp. Definitely not a Salmon. Looks like the carp was stuck on underwater debris and it was easy caught by the girl. It looks very real to me.