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guddle - to catch (fish) by groping with the hands, such as under rocks or along a riverbank
Chakra is the key to catching fish without a net or a pole. That’s the official line of the Academy. It can be used in different ways, of course: a raiton that shocks them into paralyzation or death, a katon that boils the water (and the fish), a burst of fast-moving water that stuns them.
But for those with little or no access to their chakra, it’s a much harder (and wetter) path to dinner.
Once upon a time, it took Rock Lee a very long time to catch fish. Subtlety just wasn’t in his nature, especially not after he became Maito Gai’s student. He slowly learned the best places to catch them, and he eventually became passable, but he was never able to make a huge pile of glittering scales like his classmates.
But then he started training with weights.
And when he was finally allowed to take them off, his pile was the biggest of all.