Posts tagged 'Catfish'

Though I seldom get to fish for them these days, I’ve long had a love affair with...

If you want to learn more about Stu Thompson’s tips and tricks for catching...

Atlantic salmon fishing has a great legacy of time-honoured traditions and Canadian anglers are blessed with ...

If there's a single fishery in western Canada that has both the diversity and quality of fish that Manitoba's Red River boasts, I'm certainly not aware of it. 

Recently, fly fishermen have discovered that channel cats ...

While their licence plates may read "Friendly Manitoba", I've met a number of residents of the Keystone Province who most assuredly aren't buying into the provincial motto. They're belligerent, rude, bullying, aggressive, confrontational and, at times, downright mean. Friendly? Not a chance. I'm referring, of course, to Manitoba's channel catfish, those knuckle-busting, tackle-wrecking leviathans that leave anglers bruised and battered from the encounter.

Monday I was going catfishing. No biggie right. I’ve done it thousands of times before. What is so special about this trip that has got me all excited? Well first let me start to explain my passion for our whiskered bottom dwellers.