Hopefully by now you have read my parts of a baitcast reel article and have also read my article on choosing a catfish reel, and have picked up a round baitcasting reel like the Abu Garcia Ambassadeur 6500C3. One of the key elements that most of the round baitcasting reels I have been writing about [...]
As promised in the parts of a baitcast reel I am going to run through some of the proper settings, use and functions of the different parts of a baitcast fishing reel for catfish. For these examples I am using the Abu Garcia Ambassadeur 6500C3 considered by the many to be the “gold standard” in [...]
Next week is catfish week at GoFishn. The first thing you might be asking is, what the heck is GoFishn? Well, GoFishn is a social network for fishing, much like Facebook but just focused on fishing. They probably should have called it Fishbook instead but who the heck am I to tell them how to [...]
Hopefully now you have read the parts of a baitcast reel article and the article on how to set the drag on your fishing reel. Now I am going to move on to how to properly set the spool tensioner on a baitcast fishing reel and why this is so important. For these examples I [...]
When I wrote the other day about the parts of a baitcasting reel and covered some basics of spooling a fishing reel in my Berkley Portable Line Spooling Station Review, but got a ton of “how do I do this and that” questions, so I am going to circle back and cover some of these [...]
There are not many products that I use that I sit back and just say “wow” but Digger Anchor is one of those products. If you own a catfish boat you owe it to yourself to check out a Digger Anchor. Boat control is one of the critical elements of catfishing and when you start targeting [...]
Between manufacturing catfish bait and juglines, being a catfish guide, and running Learn To Catch Catfish I spend a lot of time talking to people about fishing and answering questions about fishing. Truth be told, one of the main reasons I started this website is I wanted a place to refer people to for the [...]
The traditional bobber rig is probably one of the most well known fishing rigs but often is not considered when it comes to catfish rigs. For many people the traditional bobber rig is the fishing rig that they think of when they think of they start to think of rigging a fishing rod. Images of a [...]
I did a radio interview the other day with a podcasting radio show out of South Texas and thought it turned out pretty good so I wanted to post it here. Besides the fact I say uhhhh about thirty times I think there is some good info in the interview. He also has a [...]
Several months ago I was sitting down in my barn where I store my boat and was spooling all of my reels up with fresh fishing line and a guide client of mine saw me sitting out there and stopped by to chat while I was working on getting all of this done. He was [...]
Please read this, take the time to read it thoroughly and take the time to go to the link and send an email to your local lawmakers about this situation. Here is a brief summary of the situation from Keep America Fishing: “On August 23, 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was petitioned by the [...]
If you saw us live this morning from Eagle Mountain Lake on WFAA DFW Channel 8 news and are looking for more information, links and information are below. To book guided catfish trips on Lake Lewisville, Lake Worth and Eagle Mountain Lake go to the North Texas Catfish Guide Service website or call us at [...]
