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Best Time To Catch Blue Catfish [CQT]

Chad — Wed, 09 May 2012 05:01:17 +0000

Whether your target catfish species is blue catfish or channel catfish our goal is to provide you with the information you need to be more successful out on the water. In last week’s Catfishing Quick Tip video I covered the best time to catch channel catfish and some of my thoughts on targeting summer channel [...]

Best Time To Catch Channel Catfish

Chad — Wed, 02 May 2012 05:01:42 +0000

One of the questions I get asked most often is when is the best time to catch catfish and what are the best catfish baits? People have tendency to lump all three species of cats into one pool and really generalize these kinds of questions and lumping blues, flatheads and channels all into one [...]

How To Break Fishing Line and Not Break Your Rod

Chad — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 05:01:52 +0000

How to break fishing line and not tear up your catfish rods and catfish reels is the topic of this weeks catfishing quick tip. While this may sound like a crazy tip for a catfishing video I found that most people don’t know how to break fishing line, or free up snagged fishing line correctly. [...]

How To Throw A Cast Net

Chad — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:00:36 +0000

There are many different ways to throw a cast net and if you ask ten people you will probably get ten different variations on opinions of how to throw a cast net. One thing is true though, if you are going to be a blue catfish angler, YOU MUST LEARN HOW TO CATCH FRESH BAIT. [...]

Spring Blue Catfish Techniques e-Book

Chad — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:05:06 +0000

My favorite time of the year for catching blue catfish is here and I am primed and ready to go. You can be too, but you need to keep reading! The Spring Blue Catfish Techniques training program is a new premium training product from Learn To Catch Catfish. This is a follow up to [...]

The Reason It’s Called Fishing and Not Catching [CR EP 22]

Chad — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:44:03 +0000

Catfishing Radio is back and this is the very first episode of season two of the Catfishing Radio podcast. You can find a complete listing of all the previous podcast episodes in season 1 on the Catfishing Radio page of the site. This is the first episode of the podcast in quite some time. I [...]

Using Bait Clicker Fishing Reels For Catfish [CQT]

Chad — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:01:39 +0000

I have touched on bait clicker fishing reels in the past and have even covered some “hacks” to show how to add a bait clicker to fishing reels that don’t have them. I still get tons of questions on fishing with a bait clicker or line alarm through the website and it seems people have [...]

The Two Hook Rig or Double Hook Rig For Catfish [CQT]

Chad — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:04:27 +0000

The double hook rig is one of the catfish rigs that is popular when targeting trophy class catfish with large catfish baits, generally large pieces of cut bait (like threadfin shad or gizzard shad, skipjack herring, carp, drum of buffalo). It is very popular with anglers who target trophy blue catfish, is occasionally used for [...]

Trilene Knot For Fishing [CQT]

Chad — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:17:54 +0000

I have been beating knots to death in the Catfishing Quick Tips series here the past few weeks but couldn’t move on without covering the Trilene knot. The Trilene knot falls right into my daily use of fishing knots when I am making catfish rigs just like the Palomar knot and snell knot. As much [...]

The Palomar Knot, Simple, Strong and Effective [CQT]

Chad — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:01:52 +0000

The Palomar Knot is one of the few knots I rely on when I tie my catfish rigs. In pretty much every instance I can I use the Palomar knot, from attaching treble hooks to line when fishing with catfish punch baits with the secret channel catfish rig to adding fixed sinkers to my fishing [...]

Splat Fishing Techniques For Catfishing

Chad — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:01:58 +0000

Earlier this week we mentioned in the Catfishing Radio podcast episode 19 we were releasing a new e-book and training course geared at helping you catch more catfish and be more successful on the water. The majority of the information we provide here on Learn To Catch Catfish is free but we have to sell [...]

Snell Knot, The Quick and Easy Way To Snelling A Hook [CQT]

Chad — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 06:01:58 +0000

I have avoided any instructions on fishing knots since I started this site because I felt there was just so much information out there that it would be pretty self explanatory. It seems like almost daily I get some sort of question about different fishing knots after people read through our catfish rigs section so [...]

Humminbird 1198C Review For Catfishing

Chad — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:01:19 +0000

This is a review of the Humminbird 1198C sonar fish finder as well as information on what to look for when choosing a fish finder and some basic information on side imaging, down imaging and traditional broadband sonar for catfish. I have talked a lot here in the past about fish finders (aka sonar or [...]

Taking Advantage Of Low Water Conditions

Chad — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:01:23 +0000

For some reason many anglers have an obsession with water levels in lakes and reservoirs and it is not uncommon to see water levels drop significantly during the summer months. I know anglers that check lake levels every single day so they can stay up to date on the conservation pool of the lake they [...]

Jug Fishing 101

Chad — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 05:03:46 +0000

In October 2010 I released the first eBook through Learn To Catch Catfish called “How To Make The Best Catfish Juglines For Jug Fishing”. This eBook was a step by step walk through of how to make the juglines I have sold for almost ten years under the Redneck’s Juglines name, called the Redneck Original [...]

The Evening Secret Fishing or Catfish Fishing Secret Weapon

Chad — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:56:49 +0000

Since I started Learn To Catch Catfish there are a variety of topics that I have been asked about on a weekly basis and the “Evening Secret Fishing” or “Catfish Fishing Secret Weapon” is certainly one of these topics. To this point I have avoided the topic but with my recent focus on night fishing [...]

Night Fishing Lights – The Definitive Guide

Chad — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 03:21:21 +0000

Night fishing can be productive at times and very enjoyable, especially during the hot summer months, but it comes with some disadvantages as well. Not being able to see well and being eaten alive by mosquitoes and other bugs are two of the biggest challenges. In this article we’ll take a look at night fishing [...]

Night Fishing Facts & Fiction and 5 Night Fishing Myths

Chad — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 04:16:25 +0000

Night fishing is a popular topic among all anglers but when it comes to catfishing there is even more interest in night fishing than there is any other species of freshwater fish. There is also a lot of misunderstanding and bad information surrounding night fishing and catfishing. Starting in about March my phone starts [...]

Secret Channel Catfishing Rig

Chad — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 05:01:44 +0000

If you fish for channel catfish, you owe it to yourself to read every single word on this page. The Secret Channel Catfishing Rig was an absolute game changer for me and my clients. Are you tired of fishing for channnel catfish and missing bites, resulting in low numbers of fish actually being caught, or [...]

Storing Shad For Catfishing

Chad — Thu, 19 May 2011 16:00:30 +0000

Threadfin shad and gizzard shad are one of the most popular and effective catfish baits there are for blue catfish. I spend the majority of my time when catfishing for blue catfish using shad as bait. I have covered a number of topics regarding them extensively but still continue to get questions to this day. [...]

How To Hold A Catfish and Do Catfish “Sting”

Chad — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 05:01:00 +0000

Catfish don’t “sting”, let’ go ahead and get that out of the way…… I was digging through the ask a question mailbox the other day and since I started this site I have been filing one question over and over into a file several times a week, “how do you hold a catfish without being [...]

How To Clean A Catfish In 15 Seconds

Chad — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:00:11 +0000

Last year I posted a short video on how to fillet catfish that was an old video, poor quality and was really too short for anyone to really get the details on what was taking place. I recently posted my review of the American Angler MT3 electric fillet knife and made talked in that [...]

Fishfinder Settings and Use For Catfishing

Chad — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 05:01:02 +0000

I have covered extensively choosing a fishfinder for catfish and some of the basic features to look for, including the differences between traditional broadband sonar, down imaging and side imaging and covered my 2011 top fishfinder choices for catfishing as well as how I use GPS for catfishing in recent weeks here at Learn [...]

Catfish Rigs Revisited

Chad — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 06:01:12 +0000

Since I started Learn To Catch Catfish the catfish rigs section and different articles and videos I have added have been some of the most popular topics here on the website. The catfish rigs pages have received countless views and I have received countless questions about these articles and videos. Because some of these articles [...]

Storing Fishing Rods and Hooks Safely

Chad — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:01:36 +0000

Storing fishing rods and hooks when not in use may seem like something trivial and might not concern you. I can tell you from experience once you or someone else gets hooked with your gear it becomes much more of a priority. Since I spend so much time catfishing with clients I have to not [...]