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 [...]
With the holidays approaching I have not been posting much. I’m still working on a tremendous amount of content that I’ll be sharing with the Catfishing Secrets mailing list in the very near future. I’ve finished two ebooks that will be given away to the email subscribers. The first of these books is on catfish [...]
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 [...]
Catfishing Quick Tips is a new video series I have started here at Learn To Catch Catfish. Some Background I started doing videos when I first started this site and it was something I had absolutely no experience doing. From the filming to editing I had absolutely zero experience. I borrowed a camera from someone, [...]
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 [...]
If you have done much reading at all on Learn To Catch Catfish you probably have figured out by now that I am a huge fan of Abu Garcia fishing reels. The Abu Garcia 6500 C3 is my fishing reel of choice (or anything in the Abu Garcia 6000 series). I have covered them extensively [...]
I have been making more of an effort to shoot more on the water action catfishing videos over the past couple of months when fishing with my clients and have been doing a much better job of it. In the last couple of months or so I have collected several hours of action video, I [...]
Cut shad and whole shad is one of the most popular and effective catfish baits there is for catching blue catfish. Since I started Learn To Catch Catfish I have received countless questions about threadfin and gizzard shad, their use, how to bait hooks with them, how to cut them, what kind of hooks to [...]
Questions about how to cast and casting a baitcast reel have been one of the more frequent questions I have received since I started Learn To Catch Catfish. I get questions of different variations about casting a baitcast reel almost daily through the ask a catfishing question page. Over the past couple of months I [...]
I recently covered the look back at Learn To Catch Catfish for 2010 and wanted to add one more article with a look back at 2010, and then I promise this is the last one. Shooting catfishing videos whether on or offf the water is something that I really just started doing in 2010. While [...]
This is the companion to the Blue Catfish Behavior insights video I posted the other day, but is about flathead catfish (although it does show a few blue catfish as well). Most fishermen are walking by these tanks and smiling and pointing and the fish when they see them and are not really taking in [...]
Quite some time back I was at Cabela’s in Fort Worth Texas picking up some catfish tackle with my kids and we took a trip by their massive walk through fish tank that they have on site. This is a cheap way of babysitting for me because my kids will sit inside the fish tank [...]
