Two Natchez men are ready to take catfish noodling to Hollywood.

And Wednesday, Jay Leno may have opened the door to a star-studded future for two Mississippi rednecks that prefer to catch catfish bare handed.

Jimmy Allgood and Keith Rayborn of Redneck Adventures — a hunting and fishing show — are currently in negotiations with network executives. If the contract is finalized, the production of a show based on their ideas may begin soon in New York or California, Rayborn said.

The men, better known as Jim Bob and Stork, attended the National Association of Professional Television Executives convention in Las Vegas recently. On the trip they met with a production company who liked what they saw.

Allgood and Rayborn have kept relatively quiet about the news until Wednesday night when Leno made it public for them.

In a segment on The Tonight Show called “Pitch to America: New TV Shows,” Leno featured an interview with Allgood and Rayborn at the convention and clips from their show.

Leno then asked his audience whether the show was one that producers would buy. The crowd screamed their approval.

“It’s unbelievable,” Allgood said Thursday. “It’s amazing the phone calls and e-mails we’ve been getting.”

Now the duo will play the waiting game. Rayborn said he expects to hear something in the next few months.

The production company requires that many of the details remain secret, but Rayborn did say any potential show would be a spin-off of their current hunting and fishing show, which airs on cable TV.

“It’d be taking a couple of rednecks out of their environment and having them interact with other people,” Rayborn said.

Professionals would handle the filming and editing, a switch for the “rednecks with video cameras” as Leno called them.

But the creators would still have some say about the show, Rayborn said.

“We’ve talked to them about working together,” he said. “They’d have writers on staff, but I’d have a little input.”

Redneck Adventures started out as a Web site with photos of outdoor hunting and fishing events, but soon grew to a local access TV show.

Rayborn was already filming a local sports show and had a time slot with Cable One in Natchez.

“I went on a deer hunt and brought a camera,” he said. “I made a copy for everyone there, and then bought time (with Cable One).”

Rayborn expanded to the McComb and Brookhaven Cable One offices and eventually Fox in Jackson.

The show went from running 10 times a week to airing 140 times a week in 70 million cable households. It is currently available in most states.

“Our rocket ship has been a scary ride,” Allgood said.

But they don’t plan on slowing down. And they aren’t stopping the regular hunting and fishing show.

“We’ve had a lot of sponsors that believed in us when we were kind of green in diapers,” Allgood said. “They have helped make this a major success.”