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Catfish caught on a North Texas Catfish Guide Service trip
Aug 2012

Eagle Mountain Lake Fishing Report August 25 2012

It has been a while since I have posted a report, live has been crazy busy. We got a couple of big rains last week near Eagle Mountain Lake and the runoff helped the water levels s…

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Eagle Mountain Lake Fishing Report and “The Alligator” May 12,2012
May 2012

Eagle Mountain Lake Fishing Report and “The Alligator” May 12,2012

  Eagle Mountain Lake Fishing Report May 2012 Let me start with the Eagle Mountain Lake fishing report. The channel catfish bite is on fire and is as good as it gets. We are c…

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Catfish caught on a North Texas Catfish Guide Service trip
May 2012

Eagle Mountain Lake Fishing Report May 1, 2012

Sorry it has been so long since I have posted an Eagle Mountain Lake Fishing report. I have been fishing so much, trying to keep up with making Redneck’s Catfish Bait Soap and ever…

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Catfish caught on a North Texas Catfish Guide Service trip
Feb 2012

Spring Blue Catfish Techniques

Shortly after I started Learn To Catch Catfish and Catfishing Radio I began releasing e-books and online training programs in addition to all the free articles and videos to help o…

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Catfish caught on a North Texas Catfish Guide Service trip
Feb 2012

Monster catfish no match for Fort Worth 12-year-old

Here is the recent story from the Fort Worth Star Telegram on my sons state junior angler record fish.   BY BOB HOOD Special to the Star-Telegram Some anglers dream of making…

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Catfish caught on a North Texas Catfish Guide Service trip
Feb 2012

North Texas Catfish Guide Report February 13, 2012

Fishing is still up and down. The bite is still very erratic and gets good for a couple of days and then gets tough for a couple of days. The trophy blue catfish bite continues to…

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Catfish caught on a North Texas Catfish Guide Service trip
Jan 2012

Texas Catfish Guide Fishing Report January 28 2012

We got some huge rains this week and there is still massive amounts of water pouring into the North Texas area lakes we fish. Most of the lakes have come up several feet (or more)…

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Texas State Record Blue Catfish
Jan 2012

Hooking Monster Catfish A Sport On The Rise

This is the article that appeared in the Dallas Morning news about my sons Texas state junior angler record blue catfish. The blue catfish was caught on Lake Worth.  For more infor…

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Lane’s 66.28 lb Blue Catfish Records Certified (2012)
Jan 2012

Lane’s 66.28 lb Blue Catfish Records Certified (2012)

Update: the full story and every record from this fish are on our Texas catfish records page. It’s been a busy week around here! First I wrote a couple of weeks ago in my fishing r…

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Fishing Report January 9th 2011
Jan 2012

Fishing Report January 9th 2011

  I am trying to get back in the habit of posting fishing reports every 1 to 2 weeks here on the site. Before I get into the fishing report I wanted to share a recent media pi…

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Lake Worth Record Blue Catfish: 66.28 lb
Dec 2011

Lake Worth Record Blue Catfish: 66.28 lb

I am blessed to have a son that is as interested as I am in fishing, hunting and being in the outdoors. Lane has always been interested in it, probably in part due to the fact that…

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Catfish caught on a North Texas Catfish Guide Service trip
Dec 2011

Web Savvy Fishing Guide Finds Audience With Blog

Web-savvy fishing guide finds audience with blog   Posted Saturday, Mar. 20, 2010 By ART CHAPMAN Special to the Star-Telegram I look back with great fondness at what we call "…

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