Freshwater Fishing
B’n’M Poles enters catfish pole market
About three years ago, West Point’s B’n’M Poles, made an expansion of their nearly exclusive crappie and panfish lines to include catfish rods. […]
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Catfish
Cool cats — Fishing tips for Tenn-Tom cats
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers created the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway — the Tenn-Tom for short — to complete a route connecting the Tennessee River to the Tombigbee River and eventually to the Gulf of Mexico. […]
Catfish
The best tactic for more catfish
Back trolling is a good technique for putting catfish in the boat, and with the right tools it is a pretty easy procedure. […]
Catfish
2 state-record blue catfish caught on consecutive days
What’s the biggest catfish you’ve ever caught? Well, odds are pretty good it can’t hold a candle to two blue catfish a North Carolina angler landed in on consecutive days — setting a state record with each catch. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Flathead catfish – Homebodies or migratory?
Numerous studies have described riverine flathead catfish as relatively sedentary, some even concluding that an individual flathead might not stray far from a single logjam. […]
Catfish
‘Clean and healthy’ catfish baits
Mike Spinks of Sumter, S.C., has branched out in other directions when searching for the perfect catfish bait. He goes with fruit and soap. […]
Catfish
Cut the fat for beautiful catfish fillets
With a few easy strokes of his knife, Jim Danley shows how to produce mild-tasting, white-fleshed cutlets of fish from his big river catfish. […]
Catfish
Gearing up for Mississippi River catfishing
When I climbed into the cab of Jim Danley’s pickup truck to go fishing, I happened to glance into the truck’s bed and spied his fishing rods.
They looked like tuna rods. […]
Freshwater Fishing
The pipeliner tight-liner
I thought that I was going to do a human interest story about an all-American country boy-type of youngster who just happened to catch the fish of a lifetime. […]
Catfish
Mississippi Monsters — Top fishing tips for Mississippi River catfish
It looked like a sea monster when it first came up.
The wide, slate-gray body did a rolling churn when it surfaced in the turbid Mississippi River water. […]
Fishing
Catfish bait
While many diehard catfish anglers make their own concoctions of stink baits, veteran catfish guide Chris Simpson’s tried and true favorite is a product called “Sonny’s Super Sticky Channel Catfish Bait,” which comes in either 15-ounce jars or 45-ounce tubs and is designed especially for catching channel catfish. […]
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Trolling for catfish: Slinky weight is key
From late June through November catfish move around a lot due to a number of factors and one of the best ways to target mobile cats is to drift or troll. […]