Today we'd like to talk about catching channel catfish using sliding sinkers. There are a few good tricks to using sinker slides that can help when it comes to catching catfish, or any fish. As always ...

BOISE, Idaho — Tight Lines 208 is dedicated to helping people become better anglers through education. The Cram Session is designed to give readers a crash course on a specific fish species or local ...

A couple of catch-a-cat bait pockets stuffed with bait, a sliding sinker rig, and a big hook. That's what we're working with fishing for channel cats. The sliding sinker rig lets the catfish take the ...

Catfish are a popular catch-and-release fish for extreme anglers. They are easy to catch, and their large size makes them exciting to land. Catfish often swim in schools, so where there is one, there ...

An angler never knows what kind of fish is tugging at the end of the line when a nightcrawler is on the hook. Nearly every fish that swims eats nightcrawlers. You never know what you'll catch. There ...

Before the hatchery truck backed down the ramp and set all of the fish free in Liberty Lake, Danny Garrett wanted a photo. It’s not every day that he gets to hold a channel catfish. Garrett, the ...

Jefferson County, NY (WRGB) — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced the first state record fish of 2025, as Dylan Kampnich of Dexter caught a massive 37-pound ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, N.Y. — Dylan Kampnich of Dexter was spending a quiet day fishing with his son on May 3, Black River Bay in Jefferson County. Then he reeled in a 37-pound, 9-ounce channel catfish in ...

Hooks for catfish have a two-part assignment: To hold onto the bait and then hold onto the catfish once it bites. But it isn’t as simple as it sounds. Every hook isn’t built the same, and each style ...