Hillbilly Handfishin'

We ask you, is there anything better than this idea of handfishing?  We are dying to try this sport out.  Sure, we'll be thought of as ridiculously soft when we complain about the coldness of the water, but we're not sure that we mind if we get the opportunity to stick our hands into the water and pluck a fish right out of it.  We're not saying we'd like to go Gollum on the fish and bite off the still-living creature's head, but if it was a sizable enough fish and we'd been in the water long enough, we just might do such a thing, particularly if we could then simply put our hand into our pocket and slip on myyyy preciousssss.