Category: Fishing

A catfish club may want to give away a donated rod, tackle bundle or guided trip to raise money for its next community fishing day. But running a tournament does not automatically give an organization permission to sell raffle tickets. … Read the rest

Maryland Catfish Regulations are not the headline target of Maryland DNR’s latest tournament proposal, but catfish directors should still pay close attention. I’m Wyatt McKenzie, and from a fish-behavior and tournament-operations angle, this is the kind of rule signal that … Read the rest

Paying to enter a Florida catfish tournament is not automatically the same as gambling on its outcome. An organizer can charge an entry fee and award a prize in a competition of skill, but where the prize money comes from… Read the rest

Arkansas Catfish Regulations changed in a very practical way on July 1, 2026, and catfish anglers should treat those changes like part of the pre-trip checklist, right alongside bait, ice, hooks, and fuel. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said … Read the rest

Florida anglers can legally keep channel catfish from many public waters, but the number they are allowed to harvest is not necessarily the number they should eat.

Lake Thonotosassa offers a useful example. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s … Read the rest

Lake Thonotosassa is not the place to choose because you are chasing Florida’s next 70-pound blue catfish. Its appeal is almost the opposite: abundant eater-size channel cats, straightforward public access and productive cover less than 20 miles from downtown Tampa… Read the rest

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has canceled the Oct. 9 public meeting in DeFuniak Springs on flathead catfish in Panhandle rivers, citing potential tropical-storm impacts and public safety.

The cancellation changes the immediate calendar, not the underlying … Read the rest

Patience is part of catfishing, but patience in the wrong water is just lost fishing time. For Tenoroc catfish fishing this fall, Florida fisheries managers have offered an unusually practical benchmark: if nothing has happened after roughly 15 to 20 … Read the rest

Freshwater Discharge Snook strategy starts with one simple idea: snook do not treat a discharge pulse like background noise. They react to salinity shifts, flow cues, prey movement, and comfort zones. For South Florida anglers, that means the best cast … Read the rest

A Florida angler could legally pull a catfish heavier than the current state record from a trotline and still have no claim to that record. That sounds contradictory until you understand the distinction at the center of Florida catfish trotline … Read the rest