January 1 2005

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.

November 27th 2005

The wind was blowing 35+ today and I never even launched the boat. Had to reschedule clients for another day fishing at Lake Lewisville.

November 26th 2005

Lake Lewisville was brutal again today. Cedar Creek is definately the better of the two right now. Blue Catfish at Lewisville have lockjaw and are just not biting well. Should have set the juglines out again today. If we can get a few good days of cold weather the fishing will pick up and we should start catching some big blue catfish.

November 25th 2005

Fished three clients at Cedar Creek today. The fish were biting good anchored on structure and we caught about 35 box fish from 1-3 pounds and managed a few bigger fish. We missed as many as we caught because the bite was so soft. The fish are still trying to transition but things should get rolling for the big catfish in the very near future. I decided to set some juglines this morning because the fishing has been so slow. I had not run any juglines in probably over a year but went ahead and set out about 10 juglines in mid depths. All of the juglines got cleaned out except for one which had a blue catfish on the bottom hook that probably went close to 40 lbs, but it came off at the side of the boat because I did not have my dip net ready. Would have been nice to snap a photo of the big blue catfish but we would have thrown the big catfish back anyway.

November 23rd 2005

Fishing has still been slow the last few days. The fish are still scattered and the water temp has not dropped at all. Shad are all over Lake Lewisville. Fished two clients on Lake Lewisville today and the blue cat had lockjaw so we went and fished Sure Shot Catfish Punch Bait in the shallow water. We caught a handful of channel catfish and decided to call it a day and reschedule when the water temp drops a bit.

November 20th 2005

Fished clients at Cedar Creek today. Managed a 17 Lb Blue Catfish and a nice mess of box fish drift fishing in mid depths. Drifting was pretty steady and the wind was blowing all day so we never tried anchoring on the blue catfish at all.

November 19th 2005

Fished two clients at Lake Lewisville today. Fish are still very scattered. The Blue Catfish see, to be stuck in a perpertual transition and the water temp has been holding at the same temp for weeks. We need a cool front to come in and drive these fish into deeper water so we can start catching som big blue catfish.

November 14th 2005

Fishing is starting to pick up. We have had a TON of wind that has made things pretty tough to fish with the wind blowing 30+ miles per hour but we have had some days here and there where the wind has settled down some. The fish are very scattered still and have not moved completely into their fall pattern because of all the warm weather we have had. We are supposed to have a cold front tonight and the temperatures are supposed to get into the thirties at night so that should push the fish into the fall pattern by the end of the week as long as it stays cold. Lake Lewisville Catfishing has been spurratic. We have managed to catch fish but we have really had to work for them to catch them. We had a bad day on Saturday because of the wind but had a decent day yesterday with about 30 fish. The catfish pattern on the lakes has definately been strange. Lake Lewisville should continue to get better as the water temperature drops. Cedar Creek Lake is fishing about the same as Lake Lewisville right now and we are really having to work hard for the fish but still catching some good fish here and there and decent numbers. Things should get significantly better this week. We finally got Jackies Xpress Boat decaled with the North Texas Catfish Guide Service Logo. Thanks to Elite Signs and Banners in Corsicana Texas.

November 11th 2005

There is an article on me in the November 2005 issue of Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine titled Big Blues. You can view the article on their website here or read the article on the North Texas Catfish Guide Service website here.

November 6th 2005

Fished clients at Cedar Creek today. We had a great trip. Caught good numbers of fish and some good sized fish as well.

October 26th 2005

We caught some nice fish today. Boated a 17 Lb and lost another good one that was 25+ at the side of the boat on Lake Lewisville . Cedar Creek fished better for Numbers today and we managed a nice box of blue catfish.

October 26th 2005

Fished two clients at Cedar Creek Lake today and limited out on Blue Catfish at Cedar Creek Lake. They were all box fish but the clients wanted to catch some fish to take home for a fish fry. The Cedar Creek Lake water temperature is dropping quickly, fishing for big texas catfish will start very soon.

October 25th 2005

Fishing for blue catfish is starting to really pick up. We had a great day yesterday on Lake Texoma and caught some Trophy Blue Catfish as well. We hooked one huge fish that broke us off and had a few other good big fish runs that we did not get the hook set on. Things are only going to get better from here.

October 23rd 2005

It has been a while since we did a news update. Things have been pretty hectic for us at North Texas Catfish Guide Service. Trophy Blue Catfish season is upon us. We are starting to catch some big blue catfish on Lake Lewisville and Cedar Creek Lake. Things will only get better from here. We still have some dates available for Trophy Blue Catfish trips for November, December January and February so if your wanting to hook up with a Trophy Blue Catfish give us a call and book now while we still have spaces available.

Chad Ferguson of North Texas Catfish Guide Service is featured in the November 2005 Issue of Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine an article titled "Big Blues - A New Breed of Trophy Catfish Hunter Focuses on the Blue Catfishes Favorite Snack". The Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine is out to subscribers now and will be on Newstands in November. Here is a copy of the cover and what the article looks like.

North Texas Catfish Guide Service is now offering trips at Lake Texoma. If your looking for a guided fishing trip for catfish at Lake Texoma - Lake Texoma Catfish Guide Service give is a call at 817-306-0055 or 817-946-1777.

There is no doubt that Lake Texoma is one of the premier blue catfish lakes in the country as it holds the Texas State Record Blue Catfish of 121.6 Lbs and The World Record Blue Catfish as well. We are looking forward to our guided catfish fishing trips at Lake Texoma. Here is a photo of "splash" the Texas State Record Blue Catfish and World record blue catfish. At the time that this catfish was caught this was the biggest catfish ever on record and it came from the Texas Waters of Lake Texoma. Caught by Cody Mullineaux of Howe Texas on January 16th 2004. * Please note, we have nothing to do with the catch of the world record fish, the photo and information is just to show the potential of the fish to be caught at Lake Texoma.

September 14th 2005

The Redfish bite at Fairfield is still red hot. If your wanting to catch a Bull Red then now is a good time to do so. We are also catching excellent numbers of Blue Catfish and Channel Catfish at Lake Lewisville and Cedar Creek Lake, and also some Trophy Blue Catfish on Rod and Reel. The water temperatures are starting to drop and fishing will only be better from here.

We are booking now for Fall and Winter Trophy Blue Catfish Trips, and spaces are filling up fast. Trophy Catfishing will start in October and will peak in November, December, January and February. If you want an opportunity to go head to head with a Trophy Blue Catfish then this is the guided catfish fishing trip for you.

As the weather cools off, the Trophy Catfishing only gets better. Catching big Texas Catfish that are 30 and 40 pounds are caught every trip and fish bigger than 50 Lbs are very common. Texas State Record Catfish weighs in at 121 Lbs and more big catfish of this size are out there in our Texas lakes.

Armed with heavy tackle we ply the wintertime holes of these Trophy Catfish and put you on these big fish. Our proven track record of catching these big catfish speaks for it self. Most trips will average 5-6 Fish in the twenty to fourty pound range but we have had guided catfish fishing trips for Trophy Blue Catfish where our clients have caught as many as 23 Catfish over 20 Lbs in one trip.

If your looking to get your line stretched and catch the catfish of a lifetime then call now and book a guided catfish fishing trip for Trophy Blue Catfish! We move around various lakes some on our Trophy Catfish Trips Based on where the catfish are biting best at the time but these guided catfish fishing trips will be done on Cedar Creek Lake and Lake Lewisville. We are now starting to gear up to do some guided catfish fishing trips on Lake Texoma so we may offer some Trophy Catfish Trips on Lake Texoma as well.

 

August 15th 2005

Fishing is still good at Cedar Creek Lake and Lake Fairfield. We are catching a lot of nice Redfish and Flathead Catfish and Channel Catfish at Lake Fairfield and some GREAT Blue Catfish at Cedar Creek Lake. Cedar Creek is producing some Trophy Blue Catfish and Fairfield is producing some Trophy Flathead Catfish, Trophy Redfish and Big Channel Catfish. Cedar Creek Lake produced some big blue catfish last night with a number of catfish in the 10 Lb Range being caught and several Trophy Catfish released as well. We did not get a lot of pictures of the weekend but here are a few photos.

Note: We release all catfish over 10 Lbs.

August 13th 2005

Fairfield is still producing some nice Channel Catfish and Flathead Catfish. The Redfish bite was off tonight but 13 Year Old Kyle Keating managed to catch the biggest fish he has ever caught and Fairfield Produced some nice Flathead Catfish and Channel Catfish.

August 6th 2005

We fished 2 clients at Lake Fairfield on a Guided Fishing Trip For Catfish and Freshwater Redfish. We Caught 19 Channel Catfish, 5 Freshwater Redfish and Several Big Flathead Catfish on rod and reel. Our Lake Fairfield Guided Catfish Fishing Trips and Lake Fairfield Guided Redfish Fishing Trips have been producing a lot of nice catfish and redfish.

July 27th 2005

We fished 2 clients at Cedar Creek Lake Yesterday on a guided catfish fishing trip and limited out on Blue Catfish and caught several nice Sandbass and Hybrid Bass as well. Catfishing is good despite the hot weather. If your interested in a guided catfish fishing trip on Cedar Creek Lake, Lake Lewisville, Eagle Mountain, Ray Roberts or Grapevine give us a call at 817-946-1777 or 817-306-0055.

We are also now offering guided catfish fishing trips on Richland Chambers and Lake Fairfield. Many of you have asked about Texoma trips. We will likely running guided fishing trips for catfish on Lake Texoma in the near future but we are not at a point yet where we can offer these trips. We also offer fishing trips for Freshwater Redfish (Red Drum) on Lake Fairfield.

July 27th 2005

Cedar Creek Reservoir Blue Catfish have been biting good. We have been catching a lot of catfish on Cedar Creek for the past week, most of the Blue Catfish have been 1-3 pound box fish. The Catfishing at Cedar Creek has been slowing down some in the afternoons so we have been fishing for Sandbass (White Bass) and Hybrids trolling the Hellpet combo and in the late afternoons and catching a lot of nice sandbass and hybrids while trolling, the bigger Hybrids have been pretty easy to come by. Lake Fairfield is still producing some nice Freshwater Redfish (Red Drum) with several of our clients on our guided fishing trips for redfish catching Redfish in the 40" range and lot's of good sized channel catfish in the 3-5 Lb range. I fished three clients on Lake Lewisville Sunday on a guided catfish fishing trip and we caught three limits of blue catfish in 3.5 hours and released several blue catfish in the 5-10 Lb range and also several over 10 lbs. I have been fishing a new pattern and so far it has been producing some bigger fish. Summer fishing in Texas is usually pretty tough but this new technique seems to be producing some bigger catfish.

Below are a couple of photos of some recent fish including a Lake Fairfield Redfish (Red Drum) and a monster Buffalo caught at Cedar Creek Lake (by accident).

July 18th 2005

Blue Catfish have been biting good at Cedar Creek Lake, mostly box fish 1-5 lbs. Flathead Catfish, Channel Catfish and Redfish are biting good at Fairfield.

North Texas Catfish Guide Service fished a client on a guided fishing trip at Lake Fairfield for Redfish and Catfish. The Redfish bite is still excellent at Lake Fairfield and at one point there were three redfish on the lines at one time. We also caught a huge Redfish that measured 41 inches and weighed 29.8 lb.

We have dates available. We are pre booking for Winter Trophy Blue Catfish Trips.

 

July 13th, 2005

The blue catfish are still biting. It is typically summer fishing and most of the catfish we are catching are 1-5 Lb box fish and we are catching good numbers both day and night.

We have some new techniques we are trying out that seem to be producing some bigger fish for the summer, but it is still too new for me to be able to tell if it will be consistant.

We have had some of our clients inquire about fishing Lake Texoma. We are not offering guided catfish fishing trips on Lake Texoma at this time but we may do so in the future. I am going to make a few trips to Texoma in the next few weeks and do some fishing for blue catfish and spend some time checking things out and if all goes well we may start doing soms Lake Texoma Guided Fishing Trips for Catfish.

 

July 9th, 2005

Fished Lake Fairfield today for Flathead Catfish and Redfish (Red Drum). We caught one redfish that went about 30 inches and did not get any flathead catfish bites. We did catch a nice bunch of big fat channel catfish however. All in all was a slow day for Lake Fairfield.

 

July 7th, 2005

Here are some recent photos from some of our recent guided catfish fishing trips for Flathead Catfish, Blue Catfish, Channel Catfish and Redfish (Red Drum). These fish were caught at Lake Fairfield and Cedar Creek Lake. We still have dates available for Trophy Flathead Trips, Combination Redfish and Yellow Catfish (Flathead) trips on Rod and Reel. Channel Catfish Trips and Blue Catfish Trips. We are fishing at night or early mornings right now.

 

June 26th 2005

Wore the sandbass out again today on Eagle Mountain Lake. Just like yesterday the smaller fish were on slabs and the bigger sandbass were all caught on the Hellpet rig. Once the sandbass bite slowed down some we went rod and reel fishing for Blue Catfish. I had some shad, perch and gaspergoo from last night and we anchored on one of my favorite mudflats to catch some blue catfish. The catfish bite on Eagle Mountain Lake was slow but we did catch some nice blue catfish. It was a little early in the night for fishing shallow water but we did not want to fish late. I will be back out catfishing on Eagle Mountain Lake in the morning. I spotted some huge Longnose Gar this evening but all my home made gar lures were damaged so we did not get to go rod and reel fishing for gar. Hopefully my gar lures I ordered will be in soon and we can do some more rod and reel fishing for Longnose Gar. We caught some nice Eagle Mountain Lake sandbass (Sand Bass, Sandies, White Bass) and they were all really good sized fish for sand bass. The action on Eagle Mountain Lake in the Daytime has been red hot for sand bass and the catfishing on Eagle Mountain Lake is typical of this time of year. June July and August are always the worst months of the year for fishing for catfish. The catfish are really scattered and there is a lot of hunting and pecking going on to stay in to the fish. We will still be fishing for blue catfish and I have been baiting some holes for channel catfish on Eagle Mountain Lake that will produce some good numbers of channel catfish. I will be fishing the sand bass on Eagle Mountain Lake as a backup when needed. The Gar are still producing. I want to put in another week or two of rod and reel fishing for the longnose gar and if they continue biting well and we keep staying into the good size gar I will start doing some guided fishing trips for Gar on Eagle Mountain Lake and Possibly on Lewisville and Cedar Creek. If I do indeed do the Gar trips they will be daytime trips because these are sight casting trips for the gar. Lake Fairfield Flathead Catfish and Redfish (Red Drum)m have still been slow but the Lake Fairfield Channel Catfish Bite has been red hot and producing some nice catches of 3-4 Lb Channel Catfish on Lake Fairfield.

 

June 25th 2005

I went and took some kids on a guided catfish fishing trip on Eagle Mountain Lake today. We started out locating the Eagle Mountain Lake Blue Catfish on the sonar in deep water on the ledges of the channel and fished fresh cut shad and live perch for the Blue Catfish. We caught some really nice blue catfish on rod and reel and the bite was great but we could not stay on anchor with all the pleasure boaters and Jet Ski’s running around the area we were fishing so we option to get off the main lake and move around some. The blue catfish bite was not very good in other areas of the lake so my customers opted to go fish for white bass (sandbass). We did some slabbing with the boat shows around the South end of the island but most of the Sandbass we slabbed were small fish so we left the boat shows and went off to do our own thing. I took my clients out on some of the deeper water on Eagle Mountain Lake and we trolled the Hellpet rig. The two children in the boat with me caught 161 Sandbass on the Hellpet rig and almost every one of the Sandbass (white bass) were “keepers” but they opted to throw them all back. I have no doubt we would have caught more fish than that had I not hung my Hellpet rig on some timber and broke off and lost both of the rigs within a minute or so of each other. After I dropped my clients off at the boat ramp I went and caught some shad and perch in my cast net and went rod and reel fishing for Flathead Catfish by myself. I got one good run but missed the hookset because I was not paying attention (hey you have to sleep sometime).

 

June 22nd, 2005

We made a quick trip to Eagle Mountain Lake this evening for some more gar fishing. We caught several longnose gar on rod and reel and one of them was pushing close to 30 lbs or better. It was the biggest gar we have seen this week. We have not spotted anymore Alligator Gar on the mudflats but also have not been looking real hard. The longnose gar we caught were both really nice and the bigger one fought like crazy. Catching the longnose gar on rod and reel is a blast. These gar can really strip some line of the fishing reel and will often come up out of the water like tarpon trying to throw the hook. We have been using some homemade gar lures that work ok but we have been having such a good time catching gar that we I ordered some gar lures this week that are supposed to stay together a lot better. I am going to spend some more time rod and reel fishing for longnose gar over the next week and if the bite stays consistant I will start booking some guided fishing trips for gar at Eagle Mountain.

Once the gar bite slowed we went and chased the Eagle Mountain Lake Sandbass (Sandies or White Bass). I left my cast net in the truck so there was no Shad to be had so we just decided to slab up some sandies. Most of the sand bass we were catching on slabs were small so we switched to the Hellpet Rig and did some trolling on the mudflats. The Eagle Mountain Lake Sandbass Bite has been excellent.

The flathead catfish bite and redfish (red drum) bite at Lake Fairfield has been really off. The channel catfish bite has been excellent though and we have been catching tons of huge channel catfish on Lake Fairfield.

 

June 21st 2005

I fished Eagle Mountain Lake again today for Blue Catfish. The catfish bite is still good during the day and late evening. I did not get to do any Flathead Catfish fishing or Alligator Gar fishing today. The Blue Catfish on Eagle Mountain Lake are moving around a lot and we are really having to work to stay on top of them each day.

 

June 20, 2005

I fished for Flathead Catfish again tonight at Eagle Mountain Lake. It was a short trip so I did not have a lot of time but I got several good runs but missed the hookset because I was not paying attention and was messing with other things.

I have been talking with the guys at www.catfishcaller.com this week about the product they have begun manufacturing here in the United States, “The Clonk”. Their product The Clonk Catfish Caller has been very popular with Wels Catfish Anglers in Europe for a number of years. The Clonk is a tool that is used to emit sound waves through the water which is believed mimics the sound of bait fish being attacked by feeding catfish. I have heard some good information from some die hard flathead catfish anglers over the last couple of years but the evidence at this point seems to be inconclusive.

After speaking with the manufacturer of The Clonk Catfish Caller (www.catfishcaller.com) this week they are sending us some of their product to test out on our Guided Catfish Fishing Trips for Flathead Catfish. We are going to test The Clonk on our trips and see if we can determine it’s effectiveness. More information to follow as soon as we do some field testing. It’s a tough job but somebody has got to do it.

We were busy today making our Catfish Bait and did not get to do any fishing. Our catfish bait, Redneck’s Catfish Bait Soap has really taken off this year and we are having a hard time keeping up with orders. You can find more information on our catfish bait soap for jug fishing and trotlines at www.catfishbaitsoap.com We got a bunch of our juglines built as well today, you can check out our juglines at www.jugfishing.net

 

June 19 th 2005

Fished Eagle Mountain Lake this evening for Blue Catfish with clients. The bite was a little slow but we caught about 25 nice blue catfish on rod and reel fishing fresh cut shad on main lake points and humps and on shallow flats.

Once I finished fishing my clients I went and did some fishing on my own for Alligator Gar. I have been seeing some massive alligator gar on some of the shallow water flats at night, some of them as big as 6 feet long. I have caught a lot of gar on rod and reel over the years by accident but never have fished for them on purpose.

July and August are supposed to me the best months of the year for Alligator Gar so I am going to keep fishing for the Alligator Gar and see if I can catch a few of these big brutes. I did get one good run tonight from a gar but he snapped my line when I tried to set the hook (I was fishing with monofilament line). I am going to get some steel leaders this week and go out and give it a whirl again later in the week.

If I could consistently pattern these huge alligator gar in the summer I would start doing some guided gar fishing trips for them that were catch and release only. Catching these huge alligator gar are a great fight and they can really strip some line off of a fishing reel.

I met Josh and Terra Richards from Lakeview Marina on Eagle Mountain Lake tonight while I was at the boat ramp. They have really done a great job at the marina and this is one of the best places to launch on Eagle Mountain Lake. There is a nice boat ramp that is good and deep unlike many of the other ramps on Eagle Mountain and there is ample parking (not like the free Peden Road Boat Ramp on Eagle Mountain Lake where you have to worry about your car or boat trailer being hit). They also now have a restaurant available on site that serves Hamburgers and snacks. If your planning on fishing Eagle Mountain Lake I highly recommend the boat launch at Lakeview Marina. There is a $10 launch fee at the marina but it is still one of the cheapest boat ramps on the lake on the Fort Worth side of the lake.

I also downloaded the free Eagle Mountain Lake Enhanced Lake Map this morning from Lowrance Electronics. The enhanced lake map was easy to install and has a decent detail on the lake structure. The map is a bit off and there is some structure that is not shown on the map but all in all things are pretty decent, and the price is right.

I have been fishing for Flathead Catfish at Eagle Mountain Lake as well and I have located some good flathead catfish holes that have been producing well.

 

June 18 th 2005

I took the weekend off this weekend from guiding so I could get caught up on some other things, get several hundred pounds of Catfish Bait Soap and a bunch of Fish On Flagging Catfish Juglines made, and have some personal fishing time.

I decided to beat the heat during the day today and spend some time with the family so we headed out to the new Cabela’s Fort Worth so I could pick out a Fathers Day Present. I have made several trips to the Fort Worth Cabela’s now and have not really had time to include any information on our website.

Cabela’s has moved in on the heels of the Bass Pro Shop that opened in Grapevine Texas several years ago. Cabela’s is located at the intersection of Hwy 170 and I35W in Fort Worth, just a few miles South of Texas Motor Speedway. The store is easy to get to and luckily traffic is rarely an issue on this stretch of I35 unless there is a Nascar Race at Texas Motor Speedway.

As stated before this is my third trip to Cabela’s Fort Worth, the first being to the private grand opening, and then shortly after the opening of the store. Both of the previous trips were on Weekday nights, and today’s trip on Saturday during the middle of the day. I was a little shocked at how many cars were in the parking lot when we pulled in, there is no doubt they are drawing in some huge crowds.

The Cabela’s Fort Worth store is a great place to pass some time especially during the Texas Summer when you need to stay cool. There are tons of exhibits and things for the whole family to look at. Immediately upon entrance there is a huge walk through aquarium with many species of fish native to Texas in the fish tank. They have a Flathead Catfish that is probably 50 lbs that came out of Eagle Mountain Lake, and numerous smaller Blue Catfish, Crappie, Bass, Carp, Perch and other fish in their tank. It was a little crowded trying to get through the tank area but not too bad. In the middle of the store there is a huge mountain with all kinds of stuffed (taxidermy) animals on the mountain and you can walk all the way around and look at everything and there are several ponds around the base of the mountain with fish in them. On the right hand side of the Cabela’s Fort Worth store is a huge display of Exotic Animals with Lions, Elephants, Hyena and other exotic game. The display is remarkable and really meticulously designed, On the left side of the store is a huge Trophy Room with numerous displays of Trophy Deer, and is another site to behold, all in all just the displays alone are worth the trip to Cabela’s Fort Worth Store. There is also a restaurant upstairs and a candy shop with fresh fudge and candy.

As far as merchandise goes, you could definitely drop some serious money in here, it’s a toy store for the outdoorsman. The store has a different feel than most of the other outdoor stores in North Texas as it is not all geared towards Bass Anglers, it is more of a multi-species stores. I think that this being Cabela’s first venture into Texas they are going to have a learning curve to make sure they have everything they need in stock but all in all the selection is great. That being said, they stock a number of items that you cannot get anywhere else in North Texas.

There selection of catfish fishing rods is great, there are very few stores that stock 8’ and 9’ catfish rods and Cabela’s has them all covered and then some. I have been buying my catfish rods by mail order for several years now because nobody in the area has these bigger rods. Cabela’s stocks the Eagle Claw Cat Claw, The Cabela’s King Kat Catfish Rod and the King Kat Pro Catfish Rod, The Eagle Claw Water Eagle, Shakespeare Ugly Stik, and the Whuppin Stick which is Cabela’s version of the Ugly Stik Rods, and the Berkley Glow Stick. The Whuppin Stick is very moderately priced and seems to be a great rod for the money. I bought two 9’ Medium Light action spinning rods for fishing Rip Rap Catfish a few weeks ago and have been very pleased with them to this point. I believe that all of the above mentioned catfish fishing rods are available in 8’ and 9’ models and they have good selections of all of them, not just one of each catfish fishing rod but good stock of all of them.

They stock Ande Monofilament but there is a limited selection. They do not have the Ande Monofilament in Hi Vis Green or Tournament Yellow 20 Lb test that we use but we asked and they said they should have some shortly. I have been wanting to try the Sufix Siege Fishing Line in Neon Tangerine Color for a while now and although they do carry the Sufix Siege they did not have the Neon Tangerine color.

The Cabela’s Fort Worth has a great selection of catfish hooks. Hooks for catfishing are difficult to find at times and they seem to have a good selection of a lot of different hooks, including the Eagle Claw Kahle Hook, the Daiichi Circle Chunk Light, the Cabela’s King Kat hook, Eagle Claw Circle Hooks and Mustad Circle Hooks as well as a good selection of Treble Hooks.

Their selection of commercial prepared catfish baits (stink baits and dip baits) were all catfish baits I have never used. The do stock the Junnies Cat Tracker line of Catfish Baits including Junnies Cat Tracker Wicked Sticky dip bait. I have never used this bait but know it has a pretty good following.

All in all I think the store is great, I am thoroughly impressed. I think once they get up to speed and have some time to get figured out what they need here in Fort Worth Texas the store will be a huge success. They have a 5 Acre lake with boat ramp and boat dock outside the store so I am sure there will be some seminars and demonstrations at the store in the near future.

I ended up with a Navionics Hot Maps Classic Edition Mapping Chip for my Lowrance LCX15MT Sonar/GPS and a pair of Keen Newport H2 Sandals for Fathers Day. I have been holding out on getting the Navionics Hot Maps chip for a while now waiting for Lake Lewisville, Eagle Mountain Lake and Grapevine Lake to be added but recently saw the Navionics chip in action on Cedar Creek Lake and decided to go ahead and get the chip for Cedar Creek. Hopefully they will add the other lakes that we offer our guided catfish fishing trips in the future and we can get a new chip.

he trip to Cabela’s Ft Worth is worthwhile and a great place to stock up on fishing gear. We will likely be doing some seminars at Cabela’s in the near future.

 

June 17 th 2005

Listen to North Texas Catfish Guide Service and a catfish fishing report on Cedar Creek Lake on Hardcore Outdoor Talk with Luke Clayton tomorrow morning from 8-9 and we will also have some information on the show about our catfish juglines. You can also listen for our catfish fishing reports Saturday and Sunday morning on the Texas Fishing and Outdoors Show with Brian Hughes.

June 16 th 2005

Went fishing at Eagle Mountain Lake this evening for Flathead Catfish and Blue Catfish. This was a short pleasure trip and the Flatheads were not biting but we did catch some nice Blue Catfish at Eagle Mountain Lake. If your looking for a quick fishing trip that is close to the Fort Worth area then give us a call about our Guided Catfish Fishing Trips on Eagle Mountain Lake, your Eagle Mountain Lake Fishing Guide Service.

We have been getting a lot of calls recently about lodging and cabins on the lakes we fish in North Texas as well as camping at the Lakes we fish in North Texas. Many of you have been wondering where you can stay when fishing with North Texas Catfish Guide Service. I will try and get a web page added in the near future with information on lodging at the North Texas Lakes we fish.

Here is a quick rundown : Cedar Creek Lake has cabins for rent on the water, hotels and motels in nearby Gun Barrel City, and Camping and RV Parks on and around the Lake. Eagle Mountain Lake has cabins available on the water, camping and RV Parks and hotels and motels in nearby Lake Worth. Lake Lewisville has camping and RV Parks available on the water and hotels and motels in Nearby Lewisville. Lake Grapevine has camping and RV parks available on the water, lodging in Grapevine and hotels at nearby Bass Pro Shop Outdoor World Grapevine and the Gaylord Texas Hotel in Grapevine. The Gaylord Texan is a short walk from Grapevine Lake. We fish a number of corporate and large group trips at Lake Grapevine for clients staying at the Gaylord Texan. Lake Fairfield has camping available on the water. Richland Chambers Reservoir has cabins and camping available on the water and hotels and motels in Corsicana Texas. Lake Ray Roberts has camping available on the water, and a hotel on the water, and hotels and motels are available in Aubrey, Pilot Point Denton and Sanger.

June 15 th 2005

We are still doing great on our guided catfish fishing trips on Lake Fairfield. The yellow catfish bite and redfish (red drum) bite has been excellent for the last several weeks. We have been doing a lot of Red and Yellow trips on Lake Fairfield fishing for Redfish and Flathead Catfish. We have caught a lot of huge redfish (red drum) and flathead catfish (yellow catfish) on our guided fishing trips at Lake Fairfield.

We have been getting a lot of questions about our guided fishing trips for Redfish. Most people associate redfish (red drum) with coastal fishing but there is some great opportunities for redfish (red drum) in freshwater in Texas. The Texas Freshwater Redfish are stocked in Lake Fairfield and Tradinghouse Creek Reservoir along with a number of other lakes in Texas. The Freshwater Redfish (Red Drum) are stocked annually in these lakes but do not reproduce. The Redfish (Red Drum) grow to huge sizes in Lake Fairfield and Tradinghouse Creek Reservoir.

The other question we get about fishing for Freshwater Redfish (Red Drum) is “I thought you guys were catfish guides”. Yes, North Texas Catfish Guide Service does fish for catfish primarily but we are a sucker for a good fight. The Redfish (Red Drum) is well known for its fight, once one of these Redfish (Red Drum) comes along and grabs a hold of the end of your line there is no doubt about it. You take the fishing rod from the fishing rod holder with the bait clicker screaming, set the hook on a giant Redfish (Red Drum) and just hold on, while the fish strips drag off the fishing reel.

The fishing opportunities at Lake Fairfield are excellent for Redfish (Red Drum) Flathead Catfish (Yellow Catfish) and Channel Catfish are Excellent. If your looking for a guided fishing trip for flathead catfish on Lake Fairfield, a guided fishing trip for channel catfish on Lake Fairfield, or a guided fishing trips for Redfish (Red Drum) on Lake Fairfield, then contact North Texas Catfish Guide Service, your Lake Fairfield Fishing Guides.

North Texas Catfish Guide Service also offers guided fishing trips for Redfish (Red Drum) on Tradinghouse Creek Reservoir, located a short drive East of Waco Texas. Tradinghouse Creek Reservoir provides excellent opportunities for fishing for Redfish (Red Drum) on Central Texas, so if your looking for a Central Texas Guided Catfish Fishing Trip for Redfish (Red Drum) on Tradinghouse Creek Reservoir contact North Texas Catfish Guide Service.

Flathead Catfish provide the best opportunity in the summer for fishing for a Trophy Catfish on Rod and Reel. If your wanting to catch a big Texas Catfish in the Summer then one of our Flathead Catfish trips are for you. Trophy Catfish on Rod and Reel with North Texas Catfish Guide Service will put a good stretch in the fishing line and a good bend in the fishing rod. We practice catch and release on all Flathead Catfish over 10 Lbs just as we practice catch and release on all blue catfish over 10 lbs. Big Texas Catfish on Rod and Reel with North Texas Catfish Guide Service, the premier fishing guides in Texas for Trophy Catfishing.

Lake Fairfield Fishing Guide Service for Redfish (Red Drum) Flathead Catfish and Channel Catfish

Tradinghouse Creek Reservoir Fishing Guide Service for Redfish (Red Drum)

June 13 th 2005

We fished today on Lake Lewisville for Blue Catfish with a television camera man and host filming a fishing TV show about catfishing in North Texas with North Texas Catfish Guide Service. The wind was howling on Lake Lewisville. The weatherman had forecasted winds 10-12 miles per hour and I am pretty sure it was blowing at least 25 MPH. We caught bait easily at the beginning of the trip in 20-25 feet of water and caught some NICE shad. A whole net full of shad that were all 6+ inches long, perfect for cut bait. We started fishing shallow water on a windblown bank at first light and caught 4 sandbass in a row and then one dink channel catfish so I pulled anchor and we moved. We fished the rip rap using kahle hooks and a split shot tipped with shad for spawning channel catfish but for some reason the bite was just not on. We did not dedicate a whole bunch of time to fishing the rip rap for spawning channel catfish because we were on a race against time since the camera crew only had until 10:00. We went out on two of the main lake humps and marked active blue catfish on the edge of the hump, tossed out a marker and not so much as a bite. We decided to do some drift fishing on one of my favorite mudflats on Lake Lewisville with some good humps on it fishing with cut shad and live perch and did not get so much as a bite. I was marking active fish all on the edges of the humps but we had no takers. Then we were headed back into the old lake I noticed blue catfish pushing up a school of shad on my Lowrance LCX15 and quickly tossed out a marker buoy. We threw some fresh cut shad out around the marker buoy and started catching blue catfish immediately. We only had about twenty minutes left but we reeled in about 10 or 12 box fish over the course of the twenty minutes before we had to go. We are going to film again in 3 weeks and try to get into some Trophy Blue Catfish and also probably do some filming on Jug Fishing for Catfish. Today was the first time I have been on the water during the day in about 6 weeks since we have been night fishing for Blue Catfish, Channel Catfish and Flathead Catfish. We will be back on Cedar Creek this week and this weekend night fishing for blue catfish on our guided catfish fishing trips. We also will be fishing Lake Fairfield on our “Red and Yellow” trips fishing for Redfish (Red Drum) and Flathead Catfish (Yellow Catfish).

June 11 th 2005

Fished a ½ day trip today on Lake Grapevine. This is the 1 st half day trip I have done all year but these folks were in town staying at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center and wanted to go on a Lake Grapevine guided fishing trip with North Texas Catfish Guide Service and did not have a lot of time. The shad were stacked up really thick on the mudflats when I got on the water at Lake Grapevine to catch bait but right at dark they scattered. We caught some blue between one and four pounds that were all released. I did not get a final total but I think we probably caught about 30 catfish.

June 10 th, 2005

I Fished Eagle Mountain Lake today for Blue Catfish. I did not have clients booked and had been wanting to get back out on Eagle Mountain to see if I could get back into the Flathead Catfish on Eagle Mountain. I only fished for a couple of hours and the bite was slow but I did get one good flathead run but missed the hook set because I was not paying attention.

 

June 9th, 2005

North Texas Catfish Guide service limited out on Cedar Creek Lake blue catfish today.

I did a fishing report and radio interview today with Luke Clayton. Luke is a well known and respected outdoor writer in Texas and also a popular radio host. Featured with North Texas Catfish Guide Service on this show will be fishing for Blue Catfish with North Texas Catfish Guide Service on Cedar Creek Lake. If you have never caught his radio show on The Ranch radio stations you should tune in to Hardcore Outdoor Talk with Luke Clayton. Luke Clayton presents a lot of great Texas Hunting and Fishing information on his Hardcore Outdoor Talk Radio Show. Luke Clayton’s Hardcore Outdoor Talk airs on Saturday mornings from 8-9 a.m.

We had a guided catfish fishing trip on Cedar Creek Lake on the night of 6/7. One client fished on this guide trip and caught his limit plus another 17 that were thrown back after he caught his limit.

I did an interview this morning with Matt Williams, Texas Outdoor Writer that writes for numerous newspapers and fishing magazines in Texas. Matt is doing an article on Trophy Catfishing in Texas for Trophy Blue Catfish and also including some information on the new world record blue catfish. I am not sure which fishing magazine this will appear in yet but will add the information to the website when I know.

North Texas Catfish Guide Service will be filming a television show on fishing for Blue Catfish and Channel Catfish on Lake Lewisville on Monday June 12 th 2005. I am not sure of the airing date on the show yet but will add the information to the website when I get all of the information. The show will air locally in the Dallas Fort Worth area. We have not been spending a lot of time on Lake Lewisville recently because we have been fishing Cedar Creek Lake so much so we will be fishing two guided catfish fishing trips on Lake Lewisville this weekend and pre-fishing for the television show on Monday. Featured in the show I believe will be rod and reel fishing for blue catfish, rod and reel fishing the rip-rap for spawning channel catfish and jug fishing for blue catfish with our Fish On Flagging Catfish Juglines.

We just got in a new package of catfish fishing equipment from Berkley / Abu Garcia / Pure Fishing through our sponsorship. We will be trying out the new Berkley Glowstick (Glowstik) Fishing Rods. These appear to be some great catfish fishing rods. We have been fishing the Berkley Reflex Fishing Rods for a long time now and have been really pleased with them. The Berkley Glowstick (Glowstik) Fishing Rods are built on the same blanks as the Berkley Reflex Fishing Rods so the have great potential. The Berkley Glowstick (Glowstik) Catfish Fishing Rods have built in LED Lights built into the rod, and the entire blank glows in the dark. The handle of the Berkley Glowstick (Glowstik) holds three AAA batteries and has a switch built into it. You turn on the LED lights in the Berkley Glowstick (Glowstik) Catfish Fishing Rod and the rod lights up, and then when you shut the lights off, the entire blank of the catfish fishing rod glows in the dark. This appears to be a great fishing rod. I have not had a chance to use the Glowstik E-Glass Catfish Fishing Rod yet but will post some reviews and information as soon as I have had an opportunity to put some big blue catfish in the boat with it. The only downside I see at this point with the Glowstick (Glowstik) E-Glass Catfish Fishing Rods are that the handle is quite a bit bigger in diameter compared to the Berkley Reflex Catfish Fishing Rod and there might be some issues getting it in and out of the Bee Ready Fishing Rod Holders. I did speak with Rick at Bee Ready Fishing Rod Holders and he said that he has designed a tool to spread the loops in the Bee Ready Fishing Rod Holders to accommodate the bigger catfish rods so we may have to spread out the loops on the Bee Ready Fishing Rod Holders for the Berkley Glowstick Rods. The only other drawback I see with the Glowstick E-Glass Catfish Rods is they have different eyes on them than the Berkley Reflex E-Glass Catfish Fishing Rods. The Berkley Reflex E-Glass Catfish Fishing Rods have the Hard Chromium guides on them so there is no worries about knocking the eyelets of the fishing rod out but the Berkley Glowstick does not have the hard chromium guides. We also received in a bunch of Berkley Lighting Rod IM7 ProLite Steelhead rods that we use for catfishing. We have been using several different Steelhead rods for catfishing for a while now, including the Berkley Lightning Rod and the Eagle Claw Granger X Series (Eagle Claw GRX) Steelhead Rods. We also received in a bunch of Abu Garcia 6500C3 Fishing Reels as well. I am looking forward to testing out the Berkley Glowstick Fishing Rods and the Berkley Lightning Rod IM7 Prolite Steelhead Fishing Rods. I will post reviews of these products in the near future once I have had them on the water for a day or two.

June 7th, 2005

North Texas Catfish Guide Service is now on Costa Del Mar Sunglasses Pro Staff. We are glad to have Costa Del Mar on board as a sponsor along with our other great sponsors. Eagle Claw Hooks, West Boats, Xpress Boats , Abu Garcia , Ande Monofilament , Bee Ready Fishing Rod Holders , Berkley Fishing Tackle , Digger Anchors , Fitec Cast Nets , Pure Fishing , Rod Wrap , Minn Kota Trolling Motors , Shakespeare Fishing Tackle and Ugly Stik Catfish Fishing Rods.

June 6th, 2005

SUMMER NIGHT CATFISHING IS HERE!!!!

Summer Fishing for North Texas Catfish is in full swing. Daytime temperatures are blistering hot but you can beat the heat and still go night fishing with North Texas Catfish Guide Service on a Guided Catfish Fishing Trips. How about a night fishing trip rod and reel fishing for Trophy Flathead Catfish, or a rod and reel trip fishing for Trophy Flathead Catfish and Freshwater Redfish (Red Drum), or fishing for Blue Catfish. The fish have been biting great on Cedar Creek Reservoir, Eagle Mountain Lake and Lake Fairfield. Flathead Catfish, Redfish (Fairfield) and Blue Catfish Bites have all been excellent on these lakes, Brazos River Flathead Catfish will be ramping up soon as well.. Channel Catfish are spawning on most of the lakes we fish. If you would like to fish for channel catfish we can fish the rip rap for spawning channel catfish, this will last for the next few weeks. Now is a great time to take a guided catfish fishing trip at night with North Texas Catfish Guide Service. We start in the evening when things start cooling off and when the sun goes down things are nice and cool with a breeze blowing across the lake.

WE CATCH AND RELEASE ALL CATFISH OVER 10 LBS!

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June 5th, 2005

I fished clients tonight on Lake Lewisville. The channel catfish on Lake Lewisville are moving into their spawning areas. The fish have not completely transitioned into their spawning pattern yet but they are starting to move in. The channel catfish we caught were much smaller than usual but should increase in size over the next week or two as they begin to move into their spawning beds. The blue catfish were scattered and not stacked up on the humps and points like they should have been. There was a severe storm coming in and the winds picked up to about 30 miles per hour and we had lighting all around the North end of the lake so we opted to get off of Lake Lewisville early and reschedule for later this week.

June 2nd, 2005

North Texas Catfish Guide Service is offering guided catfish fishing trips on Lake Fairfield for Flathead Catfish and Freshwater Redfish (Red Drum). We have been catching good numbers of Trophy Flathead Catfish on Rod and Reel on our Texas Guided Catfish Fishing Trips and also good numbers of Freshwater Redfish on Rod and Reel at Lake Fairfield. Both the Flathead Catfish and the Redfish (Red Drum) put up a great fight and will stretch your line for a great fight. If your wanting to catch a Trophy Catfish then night fishing for Flathead Catfish on Rod and Reel is a great option. If your looking for a Lake Fairfield Catfish Fishing Guide or a Lake Fairfield Redfish fishing guide then give North Texas Catfish Guide Service a call at 817-306-0055 or 817-946-1777.

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June 1st, 2005

Catfishing has been good the last few weeks. I have been fishing Cedar Creek Lake and Eagle Mountain Lake for the past few weeks and Jackie has been fishing Cedar Creek Lake and Lake Fairfield. I intend to try and get moved back to Lake Lewisville sometime in the next week or so to start doing some more Lake Lewisville Catfish Fishing Trips again in the near future.

We have been night fishing for the most part, but I have done some day trips over the last week since it seems to have temporarily cooled off a bit making it at least tolerable to be fishing during the day. I don't expect that will last long at all.

The fishing is typical of summer catfishing in Texas, we are catching good numbers of blue catfish and channel catfish on rod and reel fishing shallow water right now. The catfish across the board have been some really good size catfish and. We have also been doing some rod and reel fishing for flathead catfish with some nice flathead catfish (yelllow catfish, app, opp) being caught. On Monday 05.30.2005 we landed a 37 Lb Flathead Catfish, an 11 Lb Flathead Catfish a dozen or so blue catfish at Eagle Mountain Lake over the course of about 2 hours fishing (it was just a short fun trip for me).

We have openings available for night fishing for blue catfish, channel catfish and flathead catfish on rod and reel and also jug fishing trips available. If your interested in fishing Lake Fairfield we can fish Channel Catfish, Rod and Reel for Flathead Catfish and also catch some Freshwater Redfish (Red Drum). If you have never caught a Flathead Catfish on rod and reel they put up a great fight. Redfish (Red Drum) at Lake Fairfield are also abundunt and put up a great fight. If your wanting to go out and get your line stretched this is a great catfish fishing trip with North Texas Catfish Guide Service.

We are now pre booking for early fall cormorant catfishing trips (fishing the birds) and also for winter Trophy Blue Catfish Trips on Rod and Reel in North Texas. North Texas Catfish Guide Service is known for producing Trophy Catfish and will definately put you on some Excellent Trophy Blue Catfish on Rod and Reel. Trophy Blue Catfish Trips are catch and release only on all catfish over 10 pounds.

I still need to get the website updated but please keep in mind that we offer Richland Chambers guided catfish fishing trips, Lake Fairfield Guided Catfish Fishing Trips and Trinity River Guided Catfish Fishing Trips in the Richland Chambers Tailrace.

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5.31.2005

I finally got around to getting my decals on my boat last week. It reall turned out great and Mike Covington of Texoma Signs did a great job getting them all done for me. They really do great work. You can visit their website at www.texomasigns.com I highly reccomend them for boat lettering, decals, signs, banners and magnetic signs for cars and trucks. Texoma Signs has done a lot of work for me in the past and I have always been 110% satisfied. We are still 110% Satisfied with our 2005 Xpress HD22CC From West Boats. This Xpress HD22CC is an amazing rig and has exceeded my expectations. It handles well in rough water, runs well in shallow water, will run wide open on 30+ MPH Gale winds and is layed out perfectly. The Yamaha 115 Horsepower 4 Stroke engine is also great. This is our first boat with a 4 Stroke Motor and I don't have enough good things to say about it.

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5.30.2005

I finally got my new Bee Ready Fishing Rod Holders installed on the Xpress HD22CC. The new Bee Ready Fishing Rod Holders are made of stainless steel and anoidized aluminum unlike the older Bee Ready Fishing Rod Holders that were powder coated. The older Bee Ready Fishing Rod Holders that were powder coated had tendency to rust but since these are stainless steel and anodized aluminum there will no longer be that problem. We used the Bee Ready Fishing Rod Holder Risers on this boat with with extra bases so we can move the fishing rod holders around the boat to different located. I have always mounted my Bee Ready Fishing Rod Holders on the gunwales, but now using these risers it is much more comfortable when fishing standing up like we do most of the time because it keeps the fishing rod holders up higher in the air. The risers are a little light weight for fishing for trophy catfish so we will not be using the risers on our Trophy Blue Catfish Trips. I have 10 Bee ready Fishing Rod Holders in the single rod model that I will be mounting straight to the gunwale for fishing for Trophy Blue Catfish to ensure durability.

One thing I will add about the Bee Ready Fishing Rod Holders removable risers is they have tendency to come out of the bases at times (part of this is because I have tendency to be a little rough pulling my rods out of the fishing rod holders). I took some of the foam swimming pool noodles and cut them into one foot pieces and ran the square tubing from the riser through the center of the foam swimming pool noodle. I tested this the other day and the foam is more than enough to float the riser and rod holder should it accidentally fall in the water, and will even float the riser and rod holder with a rod in it. You can get more information on Bee Ready Fishing Rod Holders or order Bee Ready Fishing Rod Holders from their website at www.beereadyllc.com. These are hands down the best fishing rod holders available on the market and we are proud to have Bee Ready Fishing Rod Holders as a sponsor.

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5.10.2005

The blue catfish are still biting great. Catching a lot of nice fish on rod and reel on our guided catfish fishing trips. Things have been really busy so we have not had a lot of time fo an update.

Here is a photo from 5/9/2005 on Cedar Creek Lake. North Texas Catfish Guide Service fished clients on 05.09.2005 and 05.10.2005 and had great guided catfish fishing trips both days.

4.26.2005

It has been a while since I did an update. It has been eight years since we had a vacation and we went on a trip at the last minute to Cozumel Mexico for a few days to squeeze in some fun in the sun and some fishing of course. I chartered the Grand Slam fishing boat in Cozumel and went deep see fishing in hopes of hooking a giant Blue Marlin. I had a great day on the water with Augusto, Jose and Muguel aboard the Grand Slam. I managed to catch several Yellowfin Tuna, a wahoo and hooked a Marlin that threw the hook after only a few minutes. Still all in all was a great day on the water and a very interesting experience to get out and see how deep sea fishing works. I really enjoyed catching the Tuna and Wahoo in Cozumel Mexico. I had no idea that a Tuna put up that kind of fight, it was really unbeleivable.

Back to the important things, NORTH TEXAS CATFISHING. The Spring Blue Catfish bite is still in full swing and we are still catching a lot of really nice catfish. We have still been producing limits of catfish on our guided catfish fishing trips and the blue catfish bite has been fast and furious. We have had a couple of days recently where the bite has been slow after the cold fronts but all in all the fishing has been excellent.

Things are up to speed and we are now offering guided catfish fishing trips on Richland Chambers Reservoir and guided catfish fishing trips on Lake Fairfield. Jackie Kennedy of North Texas Catfish Guide Service will be the Richland Chambers Catfish Fishing Guided and Lake Fairfield Catfish Fishing Guide. Richland Chambers Catfishing Trips will be for Blue Catfish and Lake Fairfield Catfish Fishing Trips will be for Channel Catfish and Flathead Catfish. The Flathead Catfish Trips (also called yellow catfish) will be rod and reel fishing for Flathead Catfish. These are not trips that are targeted for shear numbers of fish but are focused on Trophy Catfish. We still continue to practice catch and release on all catfish over ten pounds.

We are also beginning to gear up for the Summer fishing trips in June, July and August with North Texas catfish Guide Service. Summer fishing trips for catfish with North Texas Catfish Guide Service will be done at night and rod and reel fishing is typically excellent on these trips. This is a great way to get out and enjoy the summer fishing and night fishing is the best way to stay cool and comfortable and out of the hot Texas sun during the warmest part of the year. We will still offer our daytime guided catfish fishing trips in June, July and August but the night fishing is definately more comfortable.

If your interested in booking a trip give us a call at 817-306-0055 or 817-946-1777 or email us at TexasCatfishGuide@sbcglobal.net

Photos of Grand Slam Fishing Charter Cozumel Mexico. Unfortunately I did not get a lot of pictures taken on the fishing trip but here are a few.

 

4.25.2005

Spring Catfishing is still excellent. We have been so busy fishing we have been unable to get a lot of reports and updates done. If you interested in a guided catfish fishing trip we are still catching a lot of nice catfish and good numbers of fish. Everyone we have fished in the last month has limited out on blue catfish. There is still time to get in a spring fishing trip for blue catfish with North Texas Catfish Guide Service on Cedar Creek, Lake Lewisville or Richland Chambers. Rod and reel fishing for numbers of fish does not get any better than this.

We just got in a new shipment of Bee Ready Fishing Rod Holders for our New Xpress HD22CC from West Boats. These new Bee Ready Rod Holders are stainless steel and will not rust. This is an imressive improvement to an already great product. We will post some photos of these new Bee Ready Fishing Rod Holders when we get some pictures taken. North Texas Catfish Guide Service is proud to be sponsored by Bee Ready Fishing Rod Holders.

North Texas Catfish guide service has also been doing some rod and reel fishing for flathead catfish over the past few weeks. We will offer some rod and reel fishing trips for Flathead Catfish this summer on night fishing trips on some of the lakes that we offer our guided catfish fishing trips. We are getting a lot of calls about night fishing this summer. We do offer night fishing trips as these are great trips to fish in the heat of the summer without burning up from the Texas heat. In fact, on many of the night fishing trips for catfish with North Texas Catfish Guide Service it is not common to need a light windbreaker or coat to stay warm. We will be night fishing for Blue Catfish, Channel Catfish and Flathead Catfish starting in the summer. We will still offer our guided catfish fishing trips during the day as well.

I got out on Eagle Mountain Lake 04.24.05 for the first time in a very long time and did some rod and reel fishing for Blue Catfish. The fish have been thrown out of their pattern some due to the cold front that came through on Friday and the cool nights. We did manage to catch some nice blue catfish on rod and reel using fresh cut shad. The blue catfish were biting fairly agressive and we caught a lot of nice fish but had to cut the trip short because of the rain coming in. All in all was a great days catch on rod and reel on Eagle Mountain Lake for such a short fishing trip.

Here are some photos of recent trips with North Texas Catfish Guide Service. We don't have all of the photos together but these will give you an idea of the catfish we have been catching on our guided catfish fishing trips with North Texas Catfish Guide Service.

4.11.2005

North Texas Catfish Guide Service will be on Fox Sports Southwests - Southwest Outdoors Report on Thursday April 14th 2005 at 10:30 PM or Saturday April 16th 2005 at 6:00 with a short segment on Trophy Catfishing. Be sure to tune into Southwest Outdoors Report with Barry Stokes for to watch North Texas Catfish Guide Service.

4.9.2005

Spring Catfishing for North Texas Blue Catfish is in full swing. We have limited out every one in the boat with catfish every trip over the last week. If your interested in catching a nice load of blue catfish on Rod and Reel at Cedar Creek, Lake Lewisville, Richland Chambers or Limestone give us a call to book a guided catfish fishing trip with North Texas Catfish Guide Service.

4.8.2005

Chad Ferguson's New Xpress HD22CC Aluminum Catfish Boat is now in. Chad Ferguson will be running his guided catfish fishing trips from the HD22CC Center Console Aluminum Boat from West Boats. The HD22CC is equipped with a Yamaha 115 HP 4 Stroke Outboard, Lowrance Electronics and Minn Kota Trolling Motor. This Xpress Boat is extra big and wide for fishing rough water and will run in shallow water as well. The boat has extra large livewells to hold lots of catfish and plenty of room to move around while catfishing.

I am also pleased to announce that I am now part of Xpress Boats Pro Staff in addition to our other line of great sponsors!

4.5.2005

Jackie Kennedy's new Xpress VX18CC Tunnel Hull Center Console Aluminum Boat is now running and on the water. Jack Kennedy helps run our guided catfish fishing trips on Cedar Creek, Richland Chambers and Limestone. Photos of the VX18CC Tunnel Hull are below.

4.3.2005

Chad Ferguson's Xpress VX20CC Catfish Boat has been SOLD! Two buyers came and looked at it on Saturday afternoon after our catfish fishing trip at Cedar Creek and the second buyer paid for it at the boat ramp. Our new Xpress boat is on order with West Boats and should be in this week. We will be fishing in the VX20CC until the new Xpress Boat comes in. We have a new Xpress HD22B 22 Foot Aluminum Center Console boat on order with a 115 HP Yamaha Four Stroke motor on order that should be in this week.

3.31.2005

Chad Ferguson's Xpress 2004 VX20CC Xpress Center Console Aluminum Catfish Boat is for sale. The Boat was purchased new in 2004 from West Boats in Mesquite Texas. This is a great catfish boat, and we really hate to part with it, but we a need a little bit bigger boat to be able to accomodate more clients. For more information on the Xpress Boat for Sale from Chad Ferguson of North Texas Catfish Guide Service Click Here. The Xpress VX18 Tunnel Hull is in and is in the process of being rigged to get on the water. It should be available in the next few days for Spring Catfishing in Shallow Water with North Texas Catfish Guide Service.

3.28.2005

We have a new Xpress VX18CC Tunnel Hull on order that will be in early this week. Jackie Kennedy of North Texas Catfish Guide Service will be fishing the VX18CC Tunnel Hull at Cedar Creek Lake, Richland Chanbers Lake and Lake Fairfield on our guided catfish fishing trips in North Texas. The Xpress Aluminum Tunnel Hull Boat will be a great addition to North Texas Catfish Guide Services fleet of boats. The boat was purchased from West Boats in Mesquite Texas. We highly encourage anyone in the market for an aluminum boat to talk with Butch West at West Boats in Mesquite Texas.

The Xpress Tunnel hull boat is arriving just in time for Spring Catfishing in the shallow water in North Texas. Call Chad Ferguson at 817-306-0055 for booking or email TexasCatfishGuide@sbcglobal.net

We will get pictures of the New Xpress Aluminum Catfish Boat added to our website as soon as it arrives and is rigged and ready to fish

3.23.2005

I spent some time on the phone today with Luke Clayton, well known outdoor writer and host of Hardcore Outdoor Talk on the Ranch Radio FM 106.9, FM107.1 and FM 95.9 in North Texas. Chad Ferguson of North Texas Catfish Guide Service will be on the April 9th show of Hardcore Outdoor Talk with Luke Clayton Saturday April 9th from 8am to 9am. Make sure and tune in to Luke Clayton's Hardcore Outdoor Talk for a current catfish fishing report for Cedar Creek Lake and Lake Lewisville. We will be doing more with Luke in the future for his radio show.

I am also pleased to announce that in the very near future we will be adding Richland Chambers, Lake Fairfield and The Trinity River/Richland Chambers Tailrace to the lakes that we offer our guided catfish fishing trips on with North Texas Catfish Guide Service. Richland Chambers is an excellent lake for Blue Catfish and Lake Fairfield is an excellent lake for Channel Catfish. We are still a few weeks out from getting ready for addiing these lakes but check back often and we will post the information here when we start the Richland Chambers Guided Catfish Fishing Trips and Lake Fairfield Guided Catfish Fishing Trips.

The blue catfish are biting EXCELLENT and we have a few spots available so if you want to catch a nice mess of catfish, now is the time to get in on the action.

3.21.2005

My customers had an automobile accident on the way to the lake this morning so I went fishing for blue catfish by myself. I had a great time as this is the first time I have been able to fish on my own in about six months. The blue catfish are starting to move into their spring pattern and things should be hot and heavy into the spring pattern in the next week. I caught a lot of nice blue catfish yesterday and had to cut back on the number of fishing rods I was using because I could not keep up with them all.

3.20.2005

Ryan and Randy Smith spent the day catfishing with North Texas Catfish Guide Service today on Cedar Creek Lake fishing for blue catfish. The catfish are not quite in their spring pattern yet but the fish are biting well. Ryan who is back home from college in Oklahoma caught his biggest fish ever on his catfish guide trip which was 13Lbs.

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3.13.2005

Had to cancel our clients guided catfish fishing trip with North Texas Catfish Guide Service on Lake Lewisville today due to high winds that were blowing just as hard as yesterday and it just was not safe to be on the water.

3.12.2005

Fished two clients today on a guided catfish fishing trip on Cedar Creek Lake. The morning started out pretty good fishing for shallow water catfish on Cedar Creek Lake, but things quickly took a turn for the worse. We caught about eight or ten nice blue catfish and one of my clients caught an 11 Lb Blue Catfish which was his biggest catfish ever, but then we started taking waves over the side of the boat when the wind picked up. There was easily 25-30 mile per hour sustained winds and it was very dangerous to be on the water. We made several other attempts to get into the spring catfish bite but the water was so rough nobody could even tell when they were getting a bite so we had to hide out of the wind the rest of the day.

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3.11.2005

The catfish are on the move and the fishing is getting fast and furious. We have some dates available for April and May still to get in on the action fishing for blue catfish. Fishing will be fast and furious, again, if your looking for lots of numbers of catfish then the spring catfish fishing is the best action for you most of our guided catfish fishing trips in the spring with North Texas Catfish Guide Service will result in limits of catfish for everyone in the boat and lots of really good sized blue catfish and channel catfish. North Texas Catfish Guide Service should be featured either at the end March or in April on fishing for Blue Catfish under the cormorant roosts and Trophy Catfishing for BIg Texas Trophy Blue Catfish on the Southwest Outdoors Report on Fox Sports Southwest. The Show runs at 10:30 on Thursday nights and 6:00 Saturday mornings on Fox Sports Southwest.

3.6.2005

We are still doing very well on our guided catfish fishing trips in North Texas with North Texas Catfish Guide Service for Big Blue Catfish. If your looking to catch a Trophy Blue Catfish then you need to give us a call. We are catching some huge blue catfish and catching a lot of good numbers of fish as well. Photos of big trophy blue catfish from March 5th and March 6th are below. If your looking for a spring catfish trip, now is the time to call, because we are booking up fast. The spring pattern is starting and fishing will be fast and furious for the next month or two. The water will need to warm up some for the catfishing to peak but things are GREAT right now.

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3.5.2005

We just received in a new shipment of North Texas Catfish Guide Service Hats and North Texas Catfish Guide Service T-Shirts. These are a different style than our previous hats and T-Shirts with our new Texas Catfishing Logo. The catfish hats and catfish shirts are available for purchase if you would like to order one you can email us for pricing and information. We will also try to keep a few on hand for our customers on our guided catfish fishing trips in North Texas with North Texas Catfish Guide Service. Photos of the Texas Catfishing Hats and Texas Catfishing T-Shirts are below.

3.4.2005

I spent the day yesterday with Barry Stokes with Fox Sports Southwest filming some segments for several TV Shows to begin airing in Late March or April. Barry is the former host of Outdoor Trails Television and the new show to begin airing in March is The Southwest Outdoors Report. It will air on Thursdaya at 10:30 Pm and Saturdays at 6:00 Am. Barry Spent the day with Chad Ferguson and Jackie Kennedy of North Texas Catfish Guide Service doing some North Texas Catfishing. We filmed several segments for several different shows about fishing for catfish and different techniques to use. The first segment to run will be on Cormorant Catfishing (also called "fishing the birds" or "fishing the water turkeys"). We caught some shallow water blues cormorant catfishing under a cork using Sure Shot Catfish Punch bait and also with some white spinner bait skirts. Barry also did some fishing for Trophy Blue Catfish with North Texas Catfish Guide Service and altough the weather was less than cooperative we managed to get a nice mess of box fish in the boat and also boated several 10 Lb Blue Catfish. The bigger trophy blue catfish have slowed down some over the past few weeks but there is still some good spring fishing in store for the very near future.

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3.2.2005

We received a shipment in today from our sponsor Eagle Claw Fishing Tackle including a bunch of Granger Rods and GRX Rods for Spring Catfish Fishing and some heavy water eagle rods for the big trophy blue catfish as well. We are getting geared up and ready for some fast paced spring catfish fishing trips!

3.1.2005

Things have been somewhat slow with the catfish the last few days. Sunday was a bad day with no wind. Lake Lewisville was as slick as glass, which almost always makes for slower days when fishing for catfish. We got our new Minn Kota Maxxum 70 in today and will be putting it on the boat. The Maxxum 70 has Minn Kota's new 3X Steering system on it so I am looking forward to trying that out. We also have our new Lowrance X135 mounted on the front deck and are very pleased with this Lowrance graph. We will be out on Cedar Creek several times this week with clients and also on Cedar Creek and Lake Lewisville this weekend with clients for some more fishing for Trophy Blue Catfish. The water has really warmed up at Lake Lewsiville in the last few days and I am expecting the spring catfish bite to start early this year. We still have some dates available for spring Blue Catfish Trips and Channel Catfish Trips if you want to get in on the action. These will be good catfish fishing trips with North Texas Catfish Guide Service primarily for Blue Catfish and will usually result in good numbers of catfish and lots of good sized blue catfish. If you have never done a spring catfishing trip with us your missing out. We have a couple of big things going on this week and will be making some big announcements later in the week so check back soon!

2.22.2005

North Texas Catfish Guide Service is pleased to accounce that we are now sponsored by Minn Kota Motors. We will be installing a new Minn Kota Maxxum on our catfish guide boat and working with Minn Kota motors in the future. We are happy to be on the Minn Kota team along with our other great sponsors Lowrance Electronics, Eagle Claw, Pure Fishing, Fitec, Berkley, Abu Garcia, Bee Ready , Rod Wrap, Guest Chargers, Ande Monofilament, Daiichi Hooks and Power Pro Fishing Line.

2.21.2005

North Texas Catfish Guide Service was featured in yesterdays Dallas Morning News by staff writer Ray Sasser on our Guided Fishing Trips for Big Trophy Blue Catfish on North Texas Area Lakes including Lake Lewisville, Cedar Creek, Ray Roberts, Eagle Mountain and Grapevine Lake. You can read the article by Ray Sasser by clicking here - Keep an Open Mind in Pursuit of Big Catfish.

2.20.2005

I took two clients out today for a Trophy Blue Catfish Trip, Larry and his son Cayde. Larry gave Cayde the Trophy Blue Catfish trip with North Texas Catfish Guide Service for his 31st birthday. The fishing for big blue catfish had been kind of slow last week with the warm front we had but managed to pull off a great guided catfish fishing trip for Larry and Cayde with several nice Trophy Blue Catfish being caught and also sent them home with a gallon of fillets from the smaller blue catfish we managed to catch in between big trophy blue catfish (trophy blue catfish over 10 lbs are catch and release only). Here are some photos of Larry and Cayde's trip and some of the bigger blue catfish they caught on their guided catfish fishing trip with North Texas Catfish Guide Service. All of the Trophy Blue Catfish are caught on Rod and Reel and released alive after photographs. You can check out our other pictures of catfish here

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02.18.2005

We just completed the updated and redesign of our website trying to make things look a little better and provide more valuable information on fishing for Texas Catfish with North Texas Catfish Guide Service. We are still catching some nice Trophy Blue Catfish on Cedar Creek and Lake Lewisville, but the fishing has slowed down some since the warmer weather hit last week. We have updated our photo page with some additional pictures of catfish caught on our North Texas Catfish Guide Service guided catfish fishing trips. We do not have all of the catfish pictures up yet but will try and get them up as soon as possible.

02.15.2005

We are please to announce that we are now on Lowrance Electronics Pro Staff. We have been fishing the Lowrance LCX15MT Sonar for quite some time and are very excited to be a part of Lowrance Pro Staff and have them as a sponsor of North Texas Catfish Guide Service. We have new Lowrance X-135 headed out to put on the nose of our catfish guide boat to make catching bait a lot easier and will be upgrading our console sonar to the Lowrance LXC-17M.

02.12.2005

I would like to thank everyone for their feedback and support they have given us on our catfish fishing reports provided by North Texas Catfish Guide Service on KRLD on Saturday Mornings on the Texas Fishing and Outdoors Show, hosted by Brian Hughes. You can listen in the North Texas area on Lake Lewsiville, Cedar Creek Lake, Lake Grapevine, Eagle Mountain Lake, Lake Ray Roberts and the Brazos River. If you listen on the Texas Fishing and Outdoors Show on the weekend and have questions about our catfish fishing reports for North Texas please feel free to email us at TexasCatfishGuide@sbcglobal.net

02.11.2005

Some of the clients of North Texas Catfish Guide Service have contaacted us recently looking for information on cast nets and preparing a cast net. You have to prepare a cast net for catching shad for catfish bait after you purchase it so we have added a page on preparing a cast net. Click here to view the information on preparing a cast net. We will add a video in the future on how to throw a cast net as well.