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2005 North Texas Catfish Guide Service News and Reports

November 29 2006

The big blue catfish are biting well. We have caught numerous trophy catfish on Lake Lewisville and Cedar Creek Lake ovr the past wek, with most of the fish running between 20 and 30 lbs. Fishing was much better with the cooler weather early in the week but we have still been producing big fish each day with no problems. We have a cold front coming in tonight and the temperature is supposed to be below freezing for the next four days which should really fire up the big blue catfish. We have dates available for December, Janaury and February for Trophy Catfishing. Call for details.

November 22, 2006

Yesterday was a bit slower than previous days have been this week and late last week. We still managed 6 big blue catfish between 12 and 23 lbs and lost one at the side of the boat that was close to 35 lbs. We have one boat open for Lake Lewisville this Sunday and one boat open for Lewisville or Cedar Creek on Sunday.

November 20, 2006

Trophy Catfishing is in FULL SWING. If you want to catch a BIG MONSTER TEXAS BLUE CATFISH ON ROD AND REEL then now is the time to do so. Fishing for Trophy Blue Catfish will be good from now to the end of February on Lake Lewisville and Cedar Creek Lake. Give us a call at 817-946-1777 or 817-306-0055 to book a winter trophy blue catfish fishing trip.

Fish in the twenty to thirty pound range are very common right now. This week has also resulted in several in the high thirties and we even landed a bleu catfish that weighed in at 64.3 lbs which is just a few ounced shy of the current Lake Lewisville record.

We are in the process of rebuilding this website. You can view the new site at www.txcatfishguide.com/REDOINDEX2.htm we are also going to be maintaining two other websites as well at www.lewisvillefishingguide.com and www.cedarcreekfishingguide.com

We have some new videos online now as well. You can watch our catfishing videos free on our catfish videos page.

 

August 21st 2006

The white bass (sandbass) and hybrid striped bass fishing on Lewisville has been insane. The bite does not get any better than it is right now. Very exciting and 100+ fish trips are easy in the mornings with very little effort. I finally got the opportunity to do some catfishing also this weekend and we managed some nice Blue Catfish also. If your interested in getting in on a Lake Lewisville White Bass, Lake Lewisville Hybrid Striped Bass, Or Lake Lewisville Catfish fishing trip before the weather starts to cool off just give me a call at 817-946-1777.

August 16th 2006

Two new videos have been uploaded - Scooter Catches Winter Trophy Flathead Catfish - and Larry Hamner of Waxahachie Texas Catches 34.3 Lb Trophy Blue Catfish these are both good videos that show a good example of some winter Trophy Catfishing action.

August 15th 2006

Lake Lewisville White Bass and Hybrid Striped Bass fishing is still excellent. If you want to catch some good numbers of fish and some pole bender hybrids now is a great time to do so. Lake Lewisville Blue Catfish seem to be starting to produce some catches, but things are going to have to cool off some for things to really get fired up. I will post some photos of the new Lake Fairfield record Flathead Catfish we caught soon. I just need to get some time to get them added to the website. Lake Fairfield is producing nice redfish, flathead catfish and channel catfish on our Lake Fairfield guided fishing trips.

August 7th 2006

Jackie and Joe Moore caught a new Lake Fairfield Flathead Catfish on August 5th that more than doubled the existing record on Lake Fairfield. The fish weighed in at 39.5 Lbs. I will post some pictures later on. I have not done any updated in a while because I spent a week at the coast in Port Bolivar (Crystal Beach) catching sharks and redfish and having some down time. I will post some pictures and information soon, I am gettingf some reports of some nice blue catfish being caught on Lewisville. I am going to try and do some catfishing later this week. The catfish bite should start picking up soon. We are already getting a lot of calls on Trophy Blue Catfish Trips for December, January and February so I suggest calling early if you want to get in on some of the Trophy Catfishing action this winter.

August 7th 2006

Some new videos have been added to the videos page. Lake Lewisville White Bass Feeding Frenzy and Catching Lake Lewisville White Bass (Sandbass)- and Claude Jones holding up 50 Lb Texas Flathead Catfish

July 30th 2006

Lake Lewisvile White Bass(Sandbass) are still biting good as well as the Lake Lewisville Hybrids. The weather seems to be effecting them some as we have had a few off days when the wind has died on us and fishing has not been as good on Lake Lewisville but all in all things have been excellent for white bass and hybrid striped bass. Jackie is still fishing Fairfield and producing good catches of Redfish and Flathead Catfish most evenings. Ran a catfish trip on Lake Lewisville this week and the catfish had lockjaw but should start picking up soon.

July 27th 2006

The White Bass (Sandbass) Fishing in Lake Lewisville and Hybrid Striped Bass fishing on Lake Lewisville has been excellent. If you want to take a trip and catch a LOT of fish in a short amount of time then right now is a great time to do so. We are also catching a lot of white bass on topwaters which is a lot if fun and very exciting way to fish. Hybrid Striped Bass to 23 have been pretty consistant. I had one trip early this week where I hooked a hybrid that was 18" or over on every cast for nine casts in a row. The White Bass and Hybrid Striped Bass guided fishing trips on Lake Lewisville are lot's of fun, and we can fish in the early morning or late evening so it is not to hot and we can stay off the water during the heat of the day. I have also been setting out some juglines anc catching Blue Catfish to 25 Lbs on Juglines as well if anyone is interested in a Jug Fishing Trip with North Texas Catfish Guide Service. I also had another client catch a holstein catfish on Lake Lewisville this past weekend that went about 2 pounds. This is the second Holstein Catfish I have caught at Lake Lewisville this year. Jackie is running Redfish Trips at Lake Fairfield and the Redfish are biting excellent. He is also catchinng some Lake Fairfield Channel Catfish and Yellow Catfish in addition to the Lake Fairfield Freshwater Redfish. If anyone is interested in a trip for August just give me a call at 817-946-1777 and we can get something set up. We still have available dates open for August. We are also starting to get a lot of calls about Fall Cormorant Catfishing Trips and Winter Trophy Blue Catfish Trips as well and these dates are starting to book up. If your interested in a Winter Trophy Blue Catfish Fishing Trip just give me a call or email me.

July 26th 2006

We are in the process of editing and uploading a bunch of videos that we have been wanting to get online for a couple of years. We finally found a host that we can use to host the videos where it does not cost us hundreds of dollars to have these videos online. It is a slow process trying to get all of these edited and added to the website but we are making some progress. Be sure to keep an eye on our Free Catfishing Videos Page for the videos we have up and like I said we will be working on adding more videos as well over the next few months and will try to add a couple of new videos each week. We have already added the Catfishing Video Claude Jones Lands a 50 Lb Texas Flathead Catfish which is a video of a Flathead Catfish that was caught on Cedar Creek Lake in the early spring that went just a little shy of 50 Lbs, Running The Lake with North Texas Catfish Guide Service is a short video of our Catfish Fishing Guide Boats running across the water in pursuit of Trophy Blue Catfish on a Winter Morning, we get a lot of questions from new clients about what kind of Catfishing Guide Boat we use on our North Texas guided fishing trips so we have added a Video Tour of one of our Fishing Guide Boats. Trophy Catfish Release is a short video clip releasing a Trophy Blue Catfish back into the Lake, Surfacing Gar is a video that shows hundreds of surfacing longnose gar on Lake Lewisville that were feeding on top and reallyu putting on a show, this is just an example of what we encounter on our guided fishing trips for Gar in North Texas, Catching Sandbass and Hybrid Striped Bass is a short Video of some clients catching white bass (sandbass, sandies) on one of our North Texas Guided Fishing Trips, Surfacing White Bass is a short video of Lake Lewisville Sandbass (Sandies, White Bass) schooling in a Topwater Feeding Frenzy on Lake Lewisville. There is a ton of free catfishing videos (catfish videos), sandbass videos, hybrid striped bass videos, gar videos and freshwater redfish videos to be added to the website so like I said check back often. We are also going to tro to add some short clips from some of our television shows with Fox Sports Southwest - Toyota Truck's Southwest Outdoors Report with Barry Stokes, The Diva's in The Outdoors Televison Show with the Texas Divas (Both the Catfish Contest Show and The Trophy Blue Catfish Show), The Trophy Catfishing Show with Bonita Staples, and some of the other great catfishing TV shows we have done over the past few years. We are also going to be shooting some more TV shows soon, so hopefully we can add them as well.

July 11th 2006

White Bass and Hybrid Striped Bass and Catfisb are still excellent on Lake Lewisville. The White Bass and Hybrid Striped Bass bite has been more consistant than the catfish bite. Redfish are good during the day and at night at Lake Fairfield. Have dates available for July.

July 1st through 5th 2006

The White Bass Fishing and Hybrid Striped Bass Fishing on Lake Lewisville has been AWESOME. If your looking to get out and catch a lot of fish in a very short amount of time and have a great day on the water now is a great time to do so. The fishing for Freshwater Redfish on Lake Fairfield has been great also. We have full day and half day trips available for Lewisville, Cedar Creek and Fairfield for July and August for White Bass, Hybrid Striped Bass, Redfish and Blue Catfish. For more information call 817-946-1777 or 817-306-0055.

June 28th 2006

We are just about finished with the website redesign. The new webpages for North Texas Catfish Guide Service are started to be added to the internet. We will have a lot of new pictures, videos and updated information available on the website redesign.

 

April 6th 2006

I have not had time to keep up with this page lately, things have been hectic so I will hit the highlights from the last few months.

Fishing is excellent right now and will be good through the Middle of may for Blue Catfish. We are limiting out daily and catching some trophy catfish as well. We are limited on available days but do still have some openings.

A client of North Texas Catfish Guide Service caught a new Cedar Creek Lake record blue catfish last month. I will post an update here soon with all the specs and photos on this big Texas catfish.

We are now offering trips for Hybrid Striped Bass and Sandbass and Gar in addition to Blue Catfish, Channel Catfish and Yellow Catfish. If your interested in fishing for Hybrid Striped Bass and Sandbass give us a shout.

We have done several TV shows this winter and I will post information as I have time but we have a show running right now with Diva's in the Outdoors on the Mens Channel that we filmed while Trophy Catfishing, we also did a spring catfishing show with the Divas in the Outdoors as well and it will air in the near future.

Below is a photo from a trip from this week.

Tight Lines and Big Cats!

Chad Ferguson

 

January 10 2006

Weldon Kirk fished with North Texas Catfish Guide Service at Lake Limestone. First trip at Limestone in a long while. Managed a few bigger fish but nothing huge.

January 7 2006

Had a last minute cancellation today and got to fish for fun for the first time in a long time with Jackie Kennedy my partner in North Texas Catfish Guide Service. We fished Cedar Creek Lake and the bite was a little slow today, we only managed 4 fish, 29 Lbs, 23 Lbs, 22 Lbs and 8 Lbs.

January 6 2006

Fishing for BIG TEXAS CATFISH is still pretty good. We are steadily catching good fish with most days averaging about 5 fish over 25 lbs. We are also catching some nice flathead catfish in addition to the Trophy Blue Catfish. Willard Brockington fished today with North Texas Catfish Guide service and caught his personal best of 28 Lbs today. Rod and Reel fishing for Trophy blue catfish is great!

January 5 2006

Chuck Kruse fished today with North Texas Catfish Guide Service and had an awesome day fishing for Trophy Blue Catfish. Total count for the day was almost 30 Trophy Blue Catfish and we even had a flathead catfish mixed in the bunch. If you want to get out and do some fishing for Big Texas Catfish then now is the time to do so!

January 4 2006

Still catching big catfish. We have some days available still for January and February Trophy Catfish Trips.

 

January 1 2006

Ringing in the new year with some huge catfish. The fish have turned back on. It is still really hot out but we are managing some nice fish again, and still we have no rain. The lakes are dropping fast and conditions are getting bad. I will be running my Lake Lewisville guided catfish fishing trips out of Tower Bay until further notice. Cedar Creek guided catfish fishing trips and Lake Texoma guided catfish fishing trips will still be at the same locations.

December 30th 2005

Fished today filming a TV show. The fish are trying to get back into a pattern and we caught a bunch of really good sized box fish from 8-10 lbs but did not manage any big fish today. I expect things to get back going again any day now. I have been on a roll with pictures lately but did not get to take any today because of the TV Cameras rolling. Here is a picture of me cleaning fish for the TV Crew.

December 28th 2005

Tough day again on the lake. They fish were shut down on us again. Still way to hot for this time of year. I did manage to get some fish in the boat towards the end of the trip including a 26 Lb flathead catfish and a few 10 Lb blue catfish.

December 27th 2005

Still a tough day fishing with high winds. We managed one good fish and some box fish but the warm front has definately effected the fish. The air temp has been running in the mid 70's and low 80's which is very unusual for this time of year.

December 26th 2005

We had a warm front roll in last night and wind was blowing 30+ mile an hour. Fish were very scattered on Lake Lewisville and we called it a day early because they bite was bad.

December 25th 2005

Fishing has been good. We are catching a lot of nice trophy catfish from 20-50 lbs. Fishing has been steady and we have been averaging 5-15 fish a trip. Here are some from today 12/25/05

December 19th 2005

Trophy Catfishing has been good as long as the weather is good and nasty. The blue bird days with warm weather, no wind and no clouds always make fishing tough in the winter. Fishing will get better the colder it gets and the nastier the weather gets. We have not been catching a lot of big fish but have been consistant with the 20-35 lb fish for the last couple of weeks. We have some dates open still for December and January if anyone wants to get out on Lewisville on Cedar Creek for some Trophy Catfish. Here are some photos of some recent blue catfish we have caught.

December 19th 2005

We have a new hook we are using for Big Catfish. Mustad 39951 Ultra Demon Light Wire Circle Hook Size 10/0. This is an EXCELLENT hook for Trophy Catfish and we have yet to miss a fish with one of these hooks. I have never been a big fan of circle hooks but these Mustad 39951BLN hooks have definately changed my mind about circle hooks. If your after smaller "box fish" the the Mustad Wide Gap Kahle hook seems to perform better but for Big Catfish this hooks is definately a winner.

December 13th 2005

We have another cool front scheduled to come through later this week with more chances of snow. Fishing should be excellent late this week and through the weekend for Trophy Catfish. We have availability on Friday and also some openings next week for Trophy Catfish on Cedar Creek, Lake Lewisville and Texoma.

December 11 th 2005

The fishing was tough today on the lake. We launched this morning and it was warm and there was no wind and no clouds, one of those tough blue bird days. By 11:00 we were all in jeans and t-shirts and were burning up. I went and caught bait very quickly this morning with no trouble and had a few minutes to fish on my own before my clients showed up so I went and anchored up and managed a nice 18 Lb Flathead Catfish. Had a tough day fishing with my clients and the biggest fish we could manage was a 14 Lb Blue Catfish, but we landed it on one of my GRX Steelhead rods so that was fun. Some of my clients have asked me about shad and how big they get so I snapped a photo of a larger shad that I caught while catching bait in my cast net this weekend so folks could see just how big shad get.

 

December 10 th 2005

The fishing has really picked up with the cold front we had. We missed a few days fishing because of the ice and snow and freezing temperatures (it was 6 degrees yesterday morning) but now that we are back on the water fishing has been good. We are starting to catch some trophy catfish and the fish are stacking up well. The fishing should stay good for the rest of the winter. As a general rule, the fishing for Trophy Blue Catfish will be excellent as long as the weather is good and nasty. Typically the worse the weather is the better the fishing will be. If it is cold and cloudy and rainy and windy fishing is usually excellent. If it is a bluebird day with clear skies, warm temperatures and no wind then the fishing will be tough. We managed a 31 Lb blue cat today and a handful of box fish and also lost another good one.

December 6 th 2005

The blue catfish bite has been fast and furious. Fishing is excellent right now and should be good as long things stay cool and we have wind. Trophy catfish have been scattered but with temps forecasted in the 20's to 30's for the next two days it should stack the fish up and make the trophy catfishing excellent. Lewisville has been very tough and the fishing has been poor but should pick up soon. We have some available dates for December and January for Trophy Catfish Trips.