Catfish
Garlic chicken is top catfish bait
The hands-down favorite bait for catfishing on the Mississippi River is skipjack herring. Herring are usually plentiful but get harder to find when winter rolls around. […]
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Catfish
How to fish the Santee catfish rig
The secret to trolling for catfish is to have the bait, typically fresh dead or cut bait, move slowly along the bottom. […]
Bobby C's Outdoors
Wonderful night tops great day on The Rez
Descending gloriously, with an orange brilliance over the Natchez Trace, the sun may have been setting but not on our day of fishing on Barnett Reservoir. […]
Catfish
Pick of the litter — Fishing guide shares secrets to Pickwick catfishing
Catfishing in the state of Mississippi is mostly associated with the Mighty Mississippi River on the west side of the state.
Even the Tenn-Tom Waterway on the east side of the state night seem more of catfish destination than any reservoir. […]
Catfish
Pickwick Lake has the blues
The Arkansas blue cat is just at home in Mississippi as it is in it’s native state, and nowhere in the Magnolia State is that more true than at Pickwick Lake. […]
Catfish
June’s best bream, catfish bets
Bass and crappie might be the most-popular game fish, at least when judged by the amount of hours and money spent by fishermen who cast and jig with the fanciest of equipment, but June can be a month when two other blue-collar species take over. […]
Catfish
Noodling season open
Obviously noodling is a sport that not everyone can get their heads wrapped around, but those who can and actually grab catfish don’t mind getting their hands a little dirty — as well as slimy and scarred. […]
Freshwater Fishing
B’n’M Poles enters catfish pole market
About three years ago, West Point’s B’n’M Poles, made an expansion of their nearly exclusive crappie and panfish lines to include catfish rods. […]
Catfish
Cool cats — Fishing tips for Tenn-Tom cats
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers created the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway — the Tenn-Tom for short — to complete a route connecting the Tennessee River to the Tombigbee River and eventually to the Gulf of Mexico. […]
Catfish
The best tactic for more catfish
Back trolling is a good technique for putting catfish in the boat, and with the right tools it is a pretty easy procedure. […]
Catfish
2 state-record blue catfish caught on consecutive days
What’s the biggest catfish you’ve ever caught? Well, odds are pretty good it can’t hold a candle to two blue catfish a North Carolina angler landed in on consecutive days — setting a state record with each catch. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Flathead catfish – Homebodies or migratory?
Numerous studies have described riverine flathead catfish as relatively sedentary, some even concluding that an individual flathead might not stray far from a single logjam. […]