Catfishing is an exciting and interesting sport. It is great fun to reel in a giant with a nine foot fishing rod and the fish that weighs 50 plus pounds. One of my favorite hobbies is fishing. Here in Oklahoma there are many lakes and rivers that house excellent catfish holes. Catfishing is only one ...
A very popular winter time activity is ice fishing for trout rainbow trout and in this article I will outline a few tips so that you can experience more success on your next excursion out onto a frozen lake in search of these beautiful and tasty fish. Rainbow trout are active during all seasons, so ...
This article will explore the best bait for largemouth bass. This seems like a pretty daunting task, doesn’t it? I mean there are so many different baits that can be used for largemouth bass that narrowing it down seems all but impossible. But, at the end of the day, it’s not and there are certain ...
When I was a kid, and my father took my brother and me fishing, I always felt it was kind of “cheating” when we had to buy our bait. Dad would even groan at the bait store when he had to pay the high prices for night crawlers, earthworms, and minnows. But, my father was ...
The answer to this question seems simple enough, right? I mean putting a worm onto a hook or hooking live worms for fishing isn’t brain surgery, it’s just putting bait onto a hook. While this is obviously true if you want to catch more fish and hook live worms for fishing in the most ...
If you’re like most fisherman, the cost of bait can really get aggravating. In the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, we use an old-school trick to get our bait, night crawlers, for free. Night crawlers are great because they fit into the diet of nearly every north-eastern fish you will come across. ...
Fishing, like many other hobbies, has its own vocabulary of words. This article will address come of the more common fishing terms that aren’t obvious to get you started. Synonyms commonly used for these fishing terms will be listed also. Bait is a fishing term that seems obvious, but it is often confused with lure. ...
Catching catfish or eating catfish, I don’t know which I like the best. In my opinion the best tasting catfish are the ones that you catch fresh from the river, skin, clean and then cook in an iron skillet right over an open campfire. Oh man, if you have never experienced the excitement of catching ...