To a river trotliner, water means current and current means catfish. Right now anglers who choose to use this time-tested and highly challenging method for catching catfish have plenty of both, especially downstream from any of Mississippi’s major reservoirs. […]
No one would ever mistake Don Drane for a rap star. When Drane says yo-yo catfish, that’s exactly what he’s talking about – catching catfish, and plenty of them, on a simple, spring loaded fishing device. In Drane’s opinion, there’s no better place to do it than Lake Washington in the Delta and no better time than right now. […]
Vicksburg angler Walter Scott offered these tips for catfishing the Mighty Mississippi: […]
Mighty Mississippi, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the height of thy crest, as it allows trotlines in the flooded timber. […]
Catfishing with jugs can be described as organized chaos or disorganized insanity. Either way, any angler taking on the challenge of free floating a dozen or more bobbing fishing canisters in a lake or river will learn quickly enough what works and what doesn’t. […]
Tools of the trade for catfish jugging are thankfully plentiful and pretty cheap. Plastic bottles, some paint, fishing line or cord, hooks, sinker weights and some bait. That’s it. […]
The age old adage goes “There is more than one way to skin a cat,” but they forgot to mention that first you have to catch the cat. […]
In Oklahoma, where they shoot TV shows about the sport, it is called noodling.
In Mississippi, it is called either grabbing, or, more correctly, grabbling. […]
Since the few anglers who do target catfish on Pickwick are most interested in trophy blues or eating-sized channels, the sleeper within a sleeper species is flathead catfish. […]
Fishing for trophy blue and flathead catfish around structure is tough on your terminal tackle. Break-offs are pretty frequent, requiring anglers to retie leaders and hooks. […]
Outdoor writers and editors love to throw around the term “sleeper.” In outdoor context, the term refers to an outdoor resource that doesn’t get its fair share of attention. […]
Anticipation of the reopening of Jeff Davis Lake can best be measured by when fishermen started arriving to get in line for Wednesday’s 6 a.m. start. […]
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