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

Learning How To Catch Catfish Hits Internet

This is an article about North Texas Catfish Guide Service and Learn To Catch Catfish that ran in the Fort Worth Star Telegram. BY ART CHAPMAN Special to the Star-Telegram I've alw…

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

Catfish Bait Business Is Sweet Success

The Fort Worth Star Telegram ran an article on North Texas Catfish Guide Service and Redneck's Catfish Bait Soap in the Sunday June 21st 2009 edition.  Here is the text from the ar…

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

Fishing Stuff For Sale

My boat has been in the shop for the past few days and I have been trying to clean out my barn and garage and get a bunch of stuff out of my way (Mrs. Redneck was tired of tripping…

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

How To Catch Summer Channel Catfish

For the past few months I have been working hours on end on an in depth book on techniques for catching summer channel catfish. This is an ebook (pdf download) that walks you step…

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Eagle Mountain Lake Fishing Report May 6 2011
Jun 2011

Eagle Mountain Lake Fishing Report May 6 2011

The channel catfish bite continues to be excellent on Eagle Mountain Lake. We are catching good to excellent numbers of channel catfish from one to five pounds daily. This is typic…

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

Eagle Mountain Lake Fishing Report May 22 2011

The channel catfish bite has been good to excellent the past week and will only get better from here. I expect within the next week to two weeks we will be in some of the best chan…

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Eagle Mountain Lake Fishing Report 4/24
Apr 2011

Eagle Mountain Lake Fishing Report 4/24

Fishing is still good on Eagle Mountain Lake. The weather continues to be crazy here and the high winds continue to be an issue most days, much more than usual for this time of yea…

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Eagle Mountain Lake Report April 17 2011
Apr 2011

Eagle Mountain Lake Report April 17 2011

Fishing on Eagle Mountain Lake has been crazy this week, went from excellent to fair and then back to excellent. The white bass bite continues to be excellent with easy limits bein…

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Catfishing Radio is Now LIVE!
Apr 2011

Catfishing Radio is Now LIVE!

For the past several months I have been working to get all of the pieces in place to launch a podcast radio show dedicated to the sport of catfishing as a division of Learn To Catc…

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Eagle Mountain Lake Report 4/10/11
Apr 2011

Eagle Mountain Lake Report 4/10/11

Fishing has really picked up this week and the spring blue catfish bite is in full swing. It will only get better from here through the rest of April and early May on Eagle Mountai…

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Eagle Mountain Fishing Report March 31
Mar 2011

Eagle Mountain Fishing Report March 31

Fishing has slowed down some over the past few days since the cold front came through but we finally got some much needed rain. The weather is supposed to warm back up on Friday an…

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

Eagle Mountain Lake Fishing Report 3/17/2011

Fishing was real hit and miss earlier in the week after the front that came through Monday but the warm weather has stacked the fish back up the last few days. Fishing on Eagle Mou…

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