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What Is Skinny Water? Why Should You Fish It?

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Skinny water fishing is some of my favorite fishing. I spent much of the time I fish for channel catfish focusing on skinny water and some of my favorite blue catfish action of the year takes place in skinny water. I made a reference to skinny water fishing a few weeks ago and immediately started [...]

Channel Catfish Hooks – The Simple Guide To Hook Selection

Channel Catfish Hooks

When fishing for channel catfish I focus on catching numbers of fish. In most areas of the United States, this will be the best option. There are fisheries that have excellent numbers of larger channel catfish but they are limited and most anglers that decide to target big fish target blue or flathead catfish. Most [...]

Channel Catfish Rods: Gear Up For Channel Catfish

Channel Catfish Rods

Channel catfish rods need to be light and sensitive to these fish in most bodies of water across the United States. There are instances where a heavier rod could be needed but for the channel catfish that most anglers are going to target lighter more sensitive gear is going to be best. Most anglers tend [...]

Catfishing Q&A [CR EP 33]

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download   I’m really behind on things with the website and have not posted any articles or videos in the past week and a half or so. I’m posting this episode of Catfishing Radio behind schedule also. My wife had surgery last week and things have been hectic with [...]

Red River Trophy Channel Catfish with Brad Durick [CR EP 28]

Red River Channel Catfish

Podcast: Play in new window | Download   Catfishing Radio Introduction We start this weeks show with announcements and information: Thanks for the recent iTunes reviews. We have surpassed 100 reviews  on iTunes. Thanks to those that have taken the time to leave a review. The Learn To Catch Catfish Community is now online go [...]

The 15 Minute Rule [CR EP 20]

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download In this episode of Catfishing Radio I talk about the 15 minute rule for blue catfish and channel catfish. The show starts out with announcements and information on: The Learn To Catch Catfish Facebook  page Following me on Twitter Some follow up information on the Splat Fishing training [...]

Fall and Winter Catfishing [CQT]

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  Fall and Winter are two of my favorite times of the year for catfishing, and it still to this day amazes me how many anglers put away their gear and stop fishing when it gets cooler and the seasons start to change. People ask me constantly what is the best time of the year [...]

Secret Catfish Rig, Summer Channel Catfish, Q&A [CR EP 6]

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download Sorry there was no podcast last week. I took the weekend off and decided not to post a show since Monday was Memorial Day. This is Catfishing Radio Episode 6. As always you will find an overview of all the topics discussed as well as links to articles [...]

Catfishing With Chicken Liver, The Definitive Guide

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  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 [...]

Identifying Blue Catfish and Channel Catfish

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Blue catfish and channel catfish are two of the most readily available species of catfish and also two of the most sought after species. Most rivers lakes and reservoirs and the United States have populations of either blue catfish or channel catfish available in good numbers. Despite the fact that the blue catfish and channel [...]

Channel Catfish (Ictalurus Punctatus)

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SQGUYMFEYG6A Description Ictalurus is Greek and punctatus is Latin, meaning “fish cat” and “spotted”. Channel Catfish can easily be identified in comparison to blue catfish and flathead catfish by paying a little attention to the distinguishing features of the species.   Channel catfish have a deeply forked tail similar to blue catfish but the coloring is [...]

Best All Around Bait For Channel Catfish

Best Bait For Channel Catfish

  From the Learn To Catch Catfish mailbox through the ask a catfishing question page.   [box]“What are the best all-around baits for channel catfish?”[/box]   Talk about a loaded question! This is again one of those questions I could write for hours and hours on and still probably not say everything about the best all around [...]