I am hard on coolers, really hard on coolers. I have a boneyard of coolers with no lids, broken parts, holes in them and a variety of other issues. I hold on to them for some strange reason thinking one day I will be able to piece them all together. It’s so bad that often [...]
I am a huge fan of Navionics charts and use them every time I fish in my Humminbird 1198. It has major impacts on my fishing for all of the catfish species. There is a major benefit to having this mapping running side by side on your sonar so you can view real time sonar [...]
I have covered setting drag and setting the spool tensioner on a baitcast fishing reel in articles in the past and put together and in depth tutorial on casting a baitcast reel as part of the coverage on catfishing techniques and catfish reels here on the site but I still get questions from people constantly [...]
When I started posting some recent videos like the Catfishing Quick Tips introduction video and some of my recent GoPro Hero camera videos people spotted my arsenal of Team Catfish Thunder Cat catfish rods in the background of some of these videos and I immediately started getting questions about these rods. I started covering catfish [...]
In addition to being a fishing geek I am a bit of a tech geek as well. I have been eyeballing the (a) GoPro HD Camera for quite some time. The GoPro HD camera has made quote a splash in the sports and outdoors world over the past year. I knew I wanted a GoPro [...]
I do a lot of catch and release catfishing and have a strict policy when people are fishing with North Texas Catfish Guide Service that all catfish over 10 lbs are released. This has been a standing policy for going on ten years now. That being said we also keep a fair amount of fish [...]
I have covered the importance of having a fish finder and knowing how to use it when fishing for blue catfish in the blue catfish anglers #1 tool and also covered some of the features to look for when choosing a fish finder for catfishing so now as promised I want to give you some [...]
I have written a number of articles about Abu Garcia fishing reels and covered them from a number of different aspects. There a number of reasons the Abu Garcia Ambassadeur series is the reel I suggest for all catfish anglers when choosing a catfish reel. I prefer the 6000 series reels overall because of their [...]
This is a guest article by Steven Gonzales you can check out one of his other articles here regarding upgrading an Abu Garcia C3 to a C4 for improved performance. Abu Garcia Ambassadeur bait cast fishing reels are loved by catfish anglers all across the United States. The Abu Garcia Ambassadeur fishing reels can [...]
This article is part of an ongoing series called Blue Catfish 101. Hopefully by now you have read enough here to know that if you are going to be catfishing for blue catfish the #1 tool in your catfishing boat is your fish finder. If you have not already read that article you need to [...]
Over the past year since I started Learn To Catch Catfish I have received thousands of questions through the ask a catfishing question page and many of those catfishing questions have been about fishing reels and gear. One of that has come up repeatedly has been questions about the Abu Garcia 6600 BCX fishing reel. [...]
I have covered a lot of information in the past on Abu Garcia Ambassadeur fishing reels and held nothing back about being a fan of them. This is a guest post submitted by one of the Learn To Catch Catfish readers Steven Gonzalez from the San Antonio Texas area. Steven is a serious gear [...]
