Anglers for catfish can boil the whole pursuit down to two basic loves: the love of a good fight, and the love of a good meal. Fishing for catfish doesn’t require the finesse and arguable elegance ...

. Soaking cut bait has a bit of a stigma of being dumbed-down fishing, but there’s actually a lot of science and technique that goes into the proper hacking, rigging, and fishing of a bloody, dripping ...

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 ...