Hillbilly Handfishin'

Famed hand-fisherman Skipper Bivins leads a group of city-slicker clients through the paces of "noodling" -- using your bare hands and feet to catch giant catfish! A pilot for the series first premiered on Animal Planet on September 24, 2010. At the time, it averaged 630,000 viewers, which was 44 percent better than the timeslot average at the time. Subsequent encores of the pilot on December 9 and December 22 drew viewerships of 653,000 and 722,000, respectively