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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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

How To Repair A Cast Net

Chad — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:00:19 +0000

Knowing how to repair a cast net will save you a lot of time and money if you are going to start using cast nets to catch bait. I recently covered how to free a cast net if you get hung up on underwater obstructions to (hopefully) minimize the damage that is done. Unfortunately though [...]

Baiting A Hook With Whole Shad

Chad — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:00:54 +0000

Whole shad is what I have often referred to as blue catfish candy. Small one to four inch threadfin shad are plentiful in most bodies of water and are easy to catch assuming have a cast net and know how to throw a cast net. I covered the steps the other day on how to [...]

How To Bait A Hook With Cut Shad

Chad — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 20:00:40 +0000

I covered cut shad and how to cut shad in another article and catfishing video yesterday at Learn To Catch Catfish and in typical fashion wanted to take and build upon that with some more information on using shad as bait for catfish. If you have not already done so, you might want to [...]

Winter Catfishing – Staying Warm And Dry

Chad — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:00:06 +0000

I have received a firestorm of questions through the ask a catfishing question page in the last few weeks with folks asking everything you could possibly think of about winter catfishing. These questions have pretty much covered everything on winter catfishing from A to Z. From what catfish rigs to use, to winter catfishing techniques [...]

Catfish Limb Lines

Chad — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:00:46 +0000

Catfishing with limb lines is a pretty simple process, which is often call tree limb fishing or limb lining as well. Just like many other things with catfishing, what it is called depends on the area you are in. No matter what you call it, fishing with limb lines is just another form of setline [...]

More Tips & Tricks For Cast Nets

Chad — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:05:31 +0000

I wrote the other day about how to throw a cast net and have added several other articles like storing a cast net, preparing a cast net, the parts of a cast net and choosing a cast net. I also mentioned the other day getting one of these bait buckets. Here are some more tips and [...]

Stay Cool, Stay Safe For Summer Fishing

Chad — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 14:34:28 +0000

With Memorial day weekend passing, and having four deaths on my local lakes this weekend the harsh reality is that the Texas heat has set in for the Summer I have been thinking a lot about my Summer catfishing tactics as well as how incredibly hot it is about to be. I am a Texas [...]

Storing A Cast Net

Chad — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:56:15 +0000

Storing A Cast Net Cast nets can be pretty expensive especially when you get into larger cast nets with heavier weights on them. As a general rule the larger the cast net, and the more weight it has on it, the more expensive it will be. Couple this with the fact that you are taking [...]

How To Fillet A Catfish

Chad — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 03:17:37 +0000

I have received a few emails from people asking how to fillet a catfish (and how to do so without cutting the heck out of yourself) so I dug up some old videos that I had posted a long time ago. They are not the best quality and they are pretty short but they should [...]

Take Better Fishing Pictures

Chad — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:00:06 +0000

Better fishing pictures are possible with these twenty tips for taking better fishing pictures. I have always enjoyed taking pictures, and I especially enjoy taking fishing pictures but I am not really picky with what the subject is. I can walk around for hours and take pictures of nothing, just experimenting with the different results. [...]

Tips On Keeping Shad Alive

Chad — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:44:43 +0000

Keeping Shad Alive 101 I work on a catfish farm in Arkansas and i love trot lining for flatheads on a small river near my house. it gets kind of hard catching bait after a while but I have acess to all the shad I want. I just cant keep them alive! do you have any tips on [...]

Preparing A Cast Net To Catch Bait

Chad — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:07:40 +0000

Cast nets (casting nets) can be tricky to use to catch bait if you have never used one before. If you have decided that you want to start catching fresh bait, or you have been using cast nets for a long time and have a new one. You are ready to get on the water [...]

Bait tanks that can be built at home (build your own bait tank 101)

Chad — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:00:36 +0000

Bait tanks are something that many catfish anglers keep in their catfish fishing arsenal. A few years ago I built this homemade baitank for holding shad and other catfish baits both on my boat and to keep fresh bait alive at my house. I have since sold the tank so I don’t have it any longer [...]