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 [...]
I admittedly have not covered a lot on flathead catfish here at Learn To Catch Catfish because most of the questions get are about blue catfish and channel catfish. I don’t get near as many flathead catfish questions and don’t gear near as many phone calls from people wanting to fish with me that have [...]
I have been playing around with the Team Catfish Dead Red Blood Spray for the better part of a year now trying it in different scenarios and in different applications. Prior to last year I had absolutely no experience with the Dead Red Blood Spray other than a few conversations with some other catfish guides [...]
I’ve used the term “match the hatch” in several articles, catfishing videos and several episodes of the Catfishing Radio podcast and never considered the fact that not everyone knows what that means. I received a message through the Learn To Catch Catfish community the other day from someone asking what that meant and realized I [...]
I get more questions about catfish rigs and catfish baits than almost any other topic that comes through my email inbox or my clients who fish with me ask me. The only questions I get asked more than that goes something like this “hey, I’m on my way to lake *insert name here* this weekend [...]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Catfishing Radio Episode 17 is back to catfishing questions and answers and working on the backlog of questions through the Learn To Catch Catfish ask a question page. We want to thank Team Catfish for being a sponsor of Catfishing Radio. You can check them out at the [...]
Over the past year and a half I have received countless questions from anglers about various catfish baits. Team Catfish baits have to be one of the most asked about products I have received questions on and up until last week I had never tried any of their baits. I recently took the Team Catfish [...]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Since I started Learn To Catch Catfish I have had countless questions about Team Catfish, their catfish baits and all the other products that they manufacture. Until recently, I had never used any of the Team Catfish baits or any of their other products for that matter. Several [...]
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. [...]
Since the beginning of Learn To Catch Catfish, I can’t begin to count how many questions I have had about catfishing with chicken liver. These questions have covered just about every single area that anyone could ever think of in regards to using chicken liver for catfish bait. When people call me about booking [...]
When I get questions through the ask a catfishing question page at Learn To Catch Catfish I glance at them briefly and move them into a file of future questions that I need to respond to. Last week I went a day or so without getting to my email which rarely happens and when I [...]
I followed your instructions on how to throw a cast net and have finally started catching shad to use for bait for blue catfish. I don’t know if the shad I am catching are threadfin shad or gizzard shad. Does it matter which one I use and how can I tell which one it [...]
