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A Tiny Toothy Catfish

Kryptoglanis shajii is a strange fish – and the closer scientists look, the stranger it gets. This small subterranean catfish sees the light of day and human observers only rarely, when it turns up in […]

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Marinated Catfish

Juicy New “Meat” Methods Reinvigorate Bait, By Ted Pilgrim, Mar · i · nate (v) – to put meat or fish in a sauce for a period of time to add flavor or to make […]

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New WV Blue Catfish State Record

First Reported By WV Metro News: An excursion to check out new gear turned into the fishing trip of a lifetime for Cabell County angler Austin Hoffman, who hooked a state-record blue catfish. The fish […]

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Jugging For Cats

September is here, leaves are starting to turn, and the afternoons are cooling off. Deer season is just around the corner and hunters are stocking up on the last minute necessities for camp. Time to […]

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Catfish-Specific Rod & Reel Combos

You’ve got your bass rods; your crappie rods; your trout and salmon rods. Even walleyes and muskies garner multiple models. Strange then that the third most popular freshwater fish on the continent—the catfish—continues to be […]

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White Catfish Record

The S.C. Department of Natural Resources is in the process of certifying as a new state record a 12-pound, 2.9-ounce white catfish caught June 23 by Charles Earp of West Columbia. According to SCDNR, Earp […]

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Slip Bobbers and Catfish

My introduction to fishing came at the end of some black nylon line with a wine cork tied above a worm-baited hook. Between the two was tied a bolt. It was pretty rudimentary but functional. […]

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Catfish Spawn Brings Hot Fishing

Water temperatures are climbing into the upper 70s, sending channel catfish to rocky banks in reservoirs to spawn. June is one of the most productive months to fish for them. Channels like crevices to spawn […]

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Carfish Are Thumping

Catfish thump tasty morsels that anglers present to them.  Summer must be upon us.  It is the prime time for fishing for this muscle with fins. A staple of southern cooking, catfish are also available […]

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Doodlesocking

There’s no better time to use a technique called “doodlesocking” than late spring and early summer, when channel catfish are spawning. This is a sure-fire way to load up on channel cats and have a […]

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Catfish Thumping

Catfish are thumping those tasty morsels that anglers present to them.  Summer is the prime time for fishing for this muscle with fins. A staple of southern cooking, catfish are also available in restaurants as […]

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Who Cut the Cheese?

If your mind is quirky enough to conjure a catfish concoction more putrid than moldering cheese, festering shad, fetid sour cream and liquescent pig brains all muddled together, you might want to keep it a […]

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Lake Tawakoni Catfish

Few anglers probably have ever heard of Lake Tawakoni except for some serious tournament catfish anglers. Of course that all changed last spring when word spread over the internet about a catfish tournament where three […]

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Jugging For Cats

September is here, leaves are starting to turn, and the afternoons are cooling off. Deer season is just around the corner and hunters are stocking up on the last minute necessities for camp. Time to […]

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Kaskaskia River Catfish

Beginning with its headwaters in Champaign County, the Kaskaskia River flows some 280 miles to the southwest to join the Mississippi River.  The upper reaches of the river above Lake Shelbyville do not produce large […]

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GA: Redbreast Sunfish Coming Back

Southeast Georgia anglers are talking about the comeback of the redbreast sunfish on the Satilla River, and much of that success comes from the ongoing removal of a different species of fish, the flathead catfish. […]

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FL Record Brown Bullhead Catfish

Dade City resident Richard Clinton now holds the record for catching the largest brown bullhead catfish on rod and reel in Florida waters, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). On Feb. […]

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Sales Of Blue Catfish Doubles

Seafood distributors sold more than a half-million pounds of blue catfish to the region’s foodservice industry this past year. That’s double the amount of this invasive species they were able to move the year before, […]

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Michigan Flathead Record In The Ice

1st report by FollowTheLeader: The Department of Natural Resources confirmed the catch of a new state record flathead catfish on Monday, Jan. 13. The catfish was caught by Dale Blakley of Niles, Mich., on Sunday, […]

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Top 4 Catfishing Techniques

Everyone has heard a good catfish story, right? It starts off with the person telling the story describing the staggering size of the fish. And then the storyteller’s arms stretch farther and farther apart until […]

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A Catfish’s Worst Nightmare

Selecting and then baiting up with a circle hook carries with it a small measure of uncertainty. Will the fish engulf the entire bait? Will the hook find purchase and penetrate the fish’s jaw? When […]

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Catfish Instead of Crappies

Regular followers of the crappie scene are familiar with the husband/wife team of Jim and Barbara Reedy from Missouri. But today we are not after crappies. Jim has a new catfish rod he wants to […]

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Float-tube Catfish Giant

Gerard Smyth nearly got more than he bargained for when a giant catfish he hooked while fishing from a float-tube dragged him nearly a mile down river and at one point came close to pulling […]

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Bare Knuckle Babes

It’s 100 degrees in East Texas, and the girls from The Bare Knuckle Babes are going fishing. No fishing poles. No lures. No equipment of any kind. These girls are “noodlers.” They catch catfish with […]

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VA State Catfish Championship

Lew Compton becomes the first angler to win a state catfish championship in Virginia. Compton now holds the title of Grand Champion. He also joins fellow anglers, Alan Conner and Micheal McGomery to become the […]

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PA Catfish Management Plan

About 11:30 p.m. on a late-spring night, relaxing in a lawn chair on the bank of the Ohio River, the butt of a fishing rod tucked snugly under a 10-pound rock, just in case … […]

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Whats Noodling?

Noodling in reference to one of the oddest catfish fishing styles known, it refers to the art of fishing for catfish using only bare hands and a big stick for prodding purposes.  That is correct; […]

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Rigging For Catfish

By Ron Presley:  Whitey Outlaw is well known for his pro crappie fishing adventures, but he also knows something about catfish. He is a consistent competitor on the Bass Pro Shops Crappie Masters tournament trail. […]

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Big Catfish At Night

Big cats love to feed at night, especially in warmer weather. The best catfish anglers know this and have their technique down to a science. The trick is knowing where to start.“A lot of how […]

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Hey Babe: Noodling?

Okie Noodling is alive and well, and I’m going to stick my neck out there and just say it’s going to continue to grow. After 19-year-old Lucy Millsap’s big win at Pauls Valley this weekend […]

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Giant Wels Catfish 115 Pounds

They call it the Duke, and it’s reportedly one of the most famous catfish in England. About time it had it’s picture taken, then. The angler lucky enough to pose with the 115-pound wels catfish […]