What Can North Texas Catfish Guide Service Do For You?
We offer several different types and of trips and tailor each trip to what our clients want to accomplish. The ultimate goal of each and every trip is to provide a safe and enjoyable experience on the water in our catfish boat and for our clients to walk away happy enjoying their day on the water with us.
We provide all bait tackle and equipment. All you have to do is show up with your fishing license and whatever you would like to eat or drink for the day.
We fish from a big roomy and comfortable 22 foot center console bay boat so you have plenty of room to move around and stretch your legs and are not cramped like a bunch of sardines all day on your fishing trip. Our catfish guide boat is equipped with the best rods, reels and equipment available so you have the most enjoyable experience possible.
Since we started North Texas Catfish Guide Service, we have built our business on a foundation of repeat and referral clients and every single client that fished with North Texas Catfish Guide Service the first few years we started is still fishing with us today.
Our business is built on a foundation of honesty and integrity. We provide an excellent service at a fair price and shoot straight with people. What does that mean? If you call us and tell us you want to catch a trophy flathead catfish or blue catfish and it is not a good time of year for that, we are going to tell you that. We are upfront and honest about what you can expect during each time of the year. At the end of the day, we want you to walk away happy and satisfied and we want to come back and go catfishing with us again!
Typical Guided Fishing Trips
Many clients want to get out on the water and catch as many fish as they can and just have a day on the water catching fish. This is what most would consider a typical charter fishing trip or guided fishing trip. Show up, catch fish, have them cleaned for you and have everything done for you on the water and then go home. These trips can focus on catching any or all species of catfish and smaller 1-10 lb catfish or even trophy class catfish.
Trophy Catfish Trips
These trips focus on catching the biggest catfish that swim in Texas waters, blue catfish and flathead catfish. Trophy blue catfish trips are one of our specialties and what put us on the map as Texas premier catfish guide service.
Teaching Trips
Some anglers want to get out on the water and learn everything they can about fishing for catfish in the process. Everything from the best catfish baits and rigs to use, where to fish and when, how to read a sonar and patterning the different species of catfish. We can cover as little or as much information as you want to learn when you are out on your fishing trip with North Texas Catfish Guide Service. There are no “secrets” and we are not protective about the information so if you want to learn how to fish one of the lakes we fish on, or want to learn so you can go back and apply what you learned on your home lake, a teaching trip is a great guided catfishing trip for you.
Where We Fish
We fish on a number of lakes in the Dallas Fort Worth area including, Eagle Mountain Lake, Lake Worth, Lake Lewisville, Lake Grapevine, The Brazos River and Lake Ray Roberts. You can learn more on the where we fish page.
If the lake you want to fish on is not listed feel free to contact us and we can make arrangements to come to you.
We are always willing to fish on the lake you want to fish on, and if we feel another lake may be a better fit based on what you want to accomplish or for that time of year, we will be up front with you and present that as an option.
What We Fish For
Blue Catfish, Trophy Blue Catfish, Channel Catfish, Flathead Catfish, White Bass / Sand Bass (Seasonal), Hybrid Striped Bass (Seasonal), alligator Gar (Seasonal), Longnose Gar (Seasonal).
You can learn more on the what we fish for page.
About Chad Ferguson
and North Texas Catfish Guide Service
My name is Chad Ferguson and I own and operate North Texas Catfish Guide Service. North Texas Catfish Guide Service is a fully licensed and insured professional fishing guide service.
I founded North Texas Catfish Guide Service in January of 2001 after leaving a career as a paramedic after almost 10 years and we have been running fast and furious catching catfish on North Texas area lakes ever since.
I am a native Texan and grew up in the Dallas / Fort Worth area, and have been fishing as long as I can remember. Some of my earliest memories are of fishing as a kid on Possum Kingdom Lake with my father and grandfather.
I have always been serious about catfishing but lost my way there for a while and did some bass fishing. I quickly realized that I didn’t like the chunking and winding of fishing lures and in the mid 1990’s I focused my attention on fishing for catfish only and the rest is history. I still fish for longnose gar, alligator gar, white bass and hybrid striped bass on occasion but my passion is catfishing, and that is why I spend the vast majority of my time focusing on catfish on North Texas area lakes and rivers.
I am happily married to my wife of over fifteen years, and have two great kids who both love fishing and being in the outdoors. When I am not out on the lakes and rivers in North Texas fishing for catfish I am usually either off writing about catfishing, recording videos about catfishing or off with the kids fishing or hunting or doing something in the outdoors.
In addition to being a professional catfish guide, I also manufacture a popular catfish bait called Redneck’s Catfish Bait Soap and run a popular website called Learn To Catch Catfish.
I started Learn To Catch Catfish in 2010 to create a resource for catfish anglers all across the United States to share the catfishing information, tips, tricks and techniques that I have learned and developed over my 10 year career as a catfish guide to help other anglers be more success on the water.
What started as a small project on a “whim” in the middle of the night one night has since grown to be one of the most popular and well respected catfishing websites online. When I am not out on guided catfishing trips, producing articles, catfishing videos and the Catfishing Radio podcast for others to learn and develop their skills and I am usually on the phone talking with someone about catfishing or fishing on my own.
I want to thank you for taking the time to visit our website and look forward to speaking with you about booking your guided catfishing trip soon!
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Still Not Convinced About Fishing With Us?
Watch the beginning of these videos below and see what Southwest Outdoors Report host Barry Stokes has to say about Chad Ferguson and North Texas Catfish Guide Service.
Chad Ferguson
