“My bride Dee Dee, my grandson Austin and myself, Jim Bates, decided to chase the catfish on the Tchefuncte River in Madisonville on June 22. Market bait and dead crawfish was the ticket to hauling in several blue cats. A few sac-a-lait were found on laydowns using baby shad plastic on 1/32-ounce jig heads.”
Miles Hardy, 8, was fishing with his dad and his brother in Bayou Teche behind his great-grandmother’s house in Leonville when he caught this 21-pound catfish using crawfish for bait.[…]
With lowered bag limits on trout and redfish, freshwater catfish are often a welcome addition to a kayak anglers’ fish bags.[…]