033 JGF: Catfishing Tips for Blues, Flatheads, and Channels
Catfishing Tips for Blues, Flatheads and Channels, JGF Tales and Reports Podcast Episode 033
Great show this week on cat-fishing. One of the most popular types of fishing in Texas and beyond is cat-fishing! We have some great guests on the show to help you in teaching novices and more experienced looking to improve their results. We hope you enjoy.
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Captain Chad Ferguson
Chad Ferguson shares his insights and techniques at Eagle Mountain Lake, Texas. Chad uses 2 key methods while fishing; rod and reel is primarily his focus when going out on the water, but also uses a jug lines to balance out the day. Kids really like the Jug Fishing as Chad gets them started for the day. Blue catfish are typically your larger species to target, especially in the winter times. These are the 40+ pounders anglers love to pull in for a nice picture and release. Channel Catfish are Chad’s favorite to target because they’re the best eating and smaller size for the choice fillet. Flathead catfish can get very large as well, but typically smaller then the Blue cat. www.learntocatchcatfish.com
Chad usually uses live shad 90% of the time and cut bait for the others. Catfish are definately preditors and will be agressive with live bait.
Gary Turner
Gary Turner from Athens Georgia and fishes South Carolina enjoys catching catchfish with his pontoon boat rigged up with 8 to 15 rods on each fishing trip. He Say’s it’s not like bass fishing when you’re working a single rod & reel, catfishin you’re setting up several rods with live bait and cut bait and waiting for a strike. Sometimes things get kinda crazy when you have 8 rods out and 8 rods get hit close to the same time! gonefishinclub.com
Gary pictured here with his 38 lb flathead catfish caught and released at Santee South Carolina. Favorite live bait is 6 to 8 inch herring.
Michael “Pork Chop” Crosby
Michael Crosby’s catfish fishing trip on the James River Virginia produces some Monster Blue Catfish! Michael known in his circle of friends as “Pork Chop” pulled in this nice 58 lb blue. Sweet!!! He also sent us a nice picture of his 70 lb Blue Cat caught on the last day!!! www.olddominioncatfishclub.org
Michael “Pork Chop” Crosby on his last day pulled in this nice 70 lb blue catfish… WOW. Using dead gizzard shad for bait was able to catch some nice monsters at the James River in Virginia. At the end of each day they would net their bait for the next days fishin.
Facebook Fish Facts and Fables
This we asked our Facebook fans… Whats the coldest day you have gone fishing? We also asked… Catfish is the 2nd most sought after species in Texas. Which species of catfish do you prefer? (Blue Cat, Channel Cat, Flathead Cat, other)
Here what the responses were on this week JGF Tales & Reports Podcast or visit us on our FaceBook fan page and join in the conversation.
We would appreciate any feedback, comments or questions you may have about our podcast or about fishin.
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Y’all have a great day of fishin,
Dave Alexander
dave@justgofishin.com
This weeks Photos courtesy of Chad Ferguson, Gary Turner, and Michael “Pork Chop” Crosby.
032 JGF, Ice Fishing
Ice Fishing, JGF Tales and Reports Podcast Episode 032
Texas fishing has gotten a little chili this time of year. The wind chill alone can freeze off your nose or ear while cruising 50 mph on open air boat to your favorite fishing spot. We decided to begin the new year by going up North to learn more about Ice Fishing and the cold weather to appreciate what we have here in Texas. This week we are thrilled to have 3 Ice Fishermen to share there Ice Fishing experiences. Also in this episode we review the new Okuma Serrano Baitcaster reel.
Mark Breitenfeldt from Saint Paul Minnesota shares his story about taking his Chevy for a swim while going Ice Fishing. One evening Mark decided to go out on an ice fishing trip and the fog had set in making it difficult to see. He was following a cars fresh tracks that were previously made and thought he was safe. He didn’t realize that he was headed for a natural spring in the lake and his chevy pickup truck suddenly went for a dive. The car’s tracks he was following had also sunk.
Nathan Krusko from New York talks about tournament Ice Fishing and hosts a podcast show called “North East Ice Fishing“. Anyone can get started with ice fishing with about $100 investement. Just pickup a few tackle items and a hand crank auger and your ready to go. Tournament Ice fishing is really catching on and gaining in popularity. Purch and Blue Gill are the main targets in this type of fishing.
Northeast ice fishing tournaments is the heaviest stringer up to 10 with some other variations depending on tournament. While pre-fishing for a tournament Nathan was able to pull in over 200 fish and releasing. It can be a real fast action sport if your able to get on the crib.
You can tune into Nathan & Chris Jones at North East Ice Fishing Podcast. Also available at iTunes. Nathan’s been fishing ice fishing since he was a kid being taught by his dad the tricks of the trade.
Captain John Gribble from Port Clinton Ohio talks about Ice Fishing for walleye on the famous Lake Erie. Ice can get up to 2 feet thick in the deep cold winter. Captain John uses an air boat or atv’s depending on the condition of the ice to navigate his way to his favorite fishing spots.
Limit of Walleye while ice fishing at Catawba State Park Ohio. Be sure to look up Captain John for some Ice Fishin on Lake Erie.
Okuma Serrano sr-200 Review
JustGoFishin purchased a new baitcaster reel after some due diligence to make up with our baitcaster fishing pole. We decided to write a review since there were some items about this new reel we felt needed to be shared. Visit JustGoFishin Blog for this review.
Checkout our new JustGoFishin custom fishing poles now available online. These poles are made from some of the best materials available. im-6 graphite blanks, recoil guides, and spiral guide setup for the baitcaster poles.
Be sure give us your feedback… our guests as well as JustGoFishin would love to here from you your comments, feedback and suggestions. Come see us on our Facebook page!
Also, Enroll your fishing website to our online fishing directory.
Y’all have a great day of fishin,
Dave Alexander
dave@justgofishin.com
This weeks Photos courtesy of Mark Breitenfeldt, Nathan Krusko and Captain John Gribble
031 JGF, Meet Our Fish Reporting Guides
Meet Our Fish Reporting Guides, JGF Tales and Reports Podcast Episode 031
Welcome back to this weeks podcast and may I say, “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!” What a year this has been as we close out this years activities and prepare for a new year. This week we wanted to introduce you to the fishing guides that provide fishing reports at JustGoFishin.com. These Captains do a great job in sharing their knowledge with you on where the fish are and how there catching them during the whole 2010 year.
Do you have the right equipment?
First; Have you received JustGoFishin’s Free Special Report on “How to select a Fishing Pole“. Our Team JustGoFishin just completed some exstensive research and wrote this special report to help you learn how to buy the right tools for the job. Get this free report by subscribing to JustGoFishin’s weekly newletter. We hope you enjoy this FREE publication as a token of our appreciation for becoming a member of Team JustGoFishin.
JustGoFishin offers several links to fishing reports along the Texas Coastal Bend to help anglers get the most out of their fishing preparations. Saltwater Angler and Texas Parks and Wildlife to name a few that offer regular fishing reports along with JustGoFishin Reports.
Meet Our Captains:
Captain John Little operates “Little Fishing Trips” along the Texas Coastal Bend covering mostly the upper Laguna Madre, Baffin Bay, Land Cut, and up to Boat Hole and Deadman’s Hole.
Captain Scott McCune, “The Saltwater Cowboy” offers charters both offshore and inshore. Inshore reports are primarily in the Rockport Texas area, Redfish Bay, Aransas Bay, Hog Island and others.
Captain George Garza operates Double G Charters and covers King Ranch Shoreline, Emmords, Pure Oil, Baffin Bay and many others.
Any one of the guides can provide a great day of fishin. We hope you enjoy learning more about these quality fishing guides.
Be sure give us your feedback… our guests as well as JustGoFishin would love to here from you your comments, feedback and suggestions. Come see us on our Facebook page!
Also, Enroll your fishing website to our online fishing directory.
Next JGF Tales and Reports Episode is scheduled for January 19th, 2011…. We’ll see ya then!
Y’all have a great day of fishin,
Dave Alexander
030 JGF, Custom Fishing Poles
Custom Fishing Poles, JGF Tales and Reports Podcast Episode 030
What’s in a fishing pole? This week we talk with Rodsmith, Manual Lara, about what goes in a fishing pole and what’s best for you. A custom fishing pole is really a “must have” for your collection of poles. Learn what an im6 blank is and how it effects your angling performance. Also available are new Fuji recoil guides that bounce back in place after being bent back almost to the pole.
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7 Foot, Light Power, Fast Action
Awesome, im6 Modulus Elasticity
Fuji Recoil Guides
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Spinning Reel or Baitcasting Reel
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Email Distribution
We’ve upgraded our email distribution to getresponse.com from our older “Mail Loop” software system. We’re excited to bring you more robust media to our listeners and viewers of our email newsletter. We recenlty received an email from such subscriber saying, “Hello Dave, Let me begin by saying I am pleasantly suprised and how much I enjoy your site. I was hesitant at first to sign up, but I must say I’m really glad I did. Keep up the good work!”Danny Eddins, Portland Texas.
JustGoFishin Podcast Network
Most of our podcast shows are downloaded through iTunes, Zune, and Blackberry and are pleased to share with you some feedback we received from one of our listeners, “As a native East Texan I consider Port Aransas my second home. Your podcast is my fishin info-link to my favorite Gulf Coast spots. Sometimes when you do interviews outside & I hear the gulls in the background I get a little homesick. Keep up the great work.” Saltydog75. Our listeners come from all over and we’d like to share with you our top 10 U.S. Cities: 1) New York, 2) Houston, 3) Dallas/Fort Worth, 4) Chicago, 5) Atlanta, 6) Los Angeles, 7) Corpus Christi, 8)Orlando/Daytona/Melbourne, 9) Pheonix, 10) Salt Lake City.
Land Cut Fishing Trip
Had a great fishing trip with Manual Lara and Art Meru as we ventured south on the Laguna Madre. After trying several spots we ended up at the Land Cut. We captured this video to share with you our day of fishin and a few of our catches.
We have other great JustGoFishin videos for your enjoyment at fishingvideos.justgofishin.com or our YouTube Channel. We posted our adventure and pictures on the JustGoFishin blog.
Facebook Fish Facts and Fables
This week we had some great responses to our Port A Jetty video posting with comments from all over. You can view responses to this video on JGF podcast & our JustGoFishin Fan Page.
We would appreciate any feedback, comments or questions you may have about our podcast or about fishin.
Texas Game Warden Watch with Chuck Ford
Speckled trout are in the deeper waters with the cooler temperatures and redfish can still be found in the flats. Just wait till after the cold front and you’ll find them schooled up tailing. Talking with a air boat guide said he runs over thousands of them all the time.
Flounder can only be caught by rod & reel with a limit of 2 during the month of November. November is also a black-out month for flounder gigging. With this new regulation we are seeing their numbers increase for flounder this year.
Be sure give us your feedback… our guests as well as JustGoFishin would love to here from you your comments, feedback and suggestions. Come see us on our Facebook page!
Also, Enroll your fishing website to our online fishing directory.
Y’all have a great day of fishin,
Dave Alexander
029 JGF, Texas Two Step: Baffin Bay and Matagorda Bay
Texas Two Step: Baffin Bay and Matagorda Bay, JGF Tales and Reports Podcast Episode 029
This week we learn how to fish the legendary Baffin Bay and the magical Matagorda Bay systems along the Texas Coastal Bend. Captain Aubrey Black and Captain Hollis Forrester share there expertise in fishing these amazing waters of Texas.
Captain Aubrey Black
“The only hard structures within the bay are 2 types; first you have the rocks and second, the lower units lying next to the rocks. “When the reds start schooling up there like major lawn movers down there in the grass and get all the crabs and shrimp scooped up”. Fishing Baffin Bay the last 7 years Captain Black has been well known for the trophy trout catches as well as his clients in this unique bay. Wade fishing the rocks, grass and shallows for redfish and speckled trout. www.captblack.com
Captain Hollis Forrester
In Matagorda Hollis focusses on the sandy grassy flats while wade fishing in about 3 feet of water. “Fall winter and springtime we focus on the big hogs (Trout), that the beauty of Matagorda bay right there!” I asked Hollis if he ever had his boat drift away from him while wade fishing? “I left my anchor untied one time and while wade fishing I looked back and see my boat gone. It was probly the worst time I’ve ever had and it was dark and thank goodness that a craber was going back home at the time and he was nice enough to stop and pick me up and go lookin for boat boat.” www.capthollisforrester.com
Port A Jetty
Some great catches at the Port Aransas Jetty this fall and JustGoFishin had a chance to talk with some anglers about their day. We created a video showing a couple of the catches that we hope you enjoy. Also, checkout our JustGoFishin YouTube Video Channel for more great fishin videos.
Brandon Witherspoon caught this nice 31 1/2 inch Bull Redfish at the Port A Jetty
Terry Loomis Caught a Nice 38 inch, 18 lbs Bull redfish at the Port A Jetty on piggy perch. He was visiting from San Antonio TX.
John Coggins of Corpus Christi Texas caught this nice slot redfish at the Port A Jetty. Measuring at about 26 inches this red will be on the dinner table that night.
Art catches a nice spanish mackerel at the Port A Jetty. He is also sporting a nice home made packpack that helps him carry his gear over the bolders of the jetty.
Mitch Gose caught and released this 45 inch Bull redfish at Port A Jetty.
This has been great these last 13 weeks bringing you some terrific interviews of some top notch anglers here in Texas and beyond. Thank you so much for joining us and tuning into the JustGoFishin.net Network. We’ll be back for monthly shows of JustGoFishin Tales & Reports with the next show on November 24th.
We would appreciate any feedback, comments or questions you may have about our podcast or about fishin.
Also, Enroll your fishing website to our online fishing directory.
Y’all have a great day of fishin,
Dave Alexander
