I'm going to Lake Fork with some friends that want to catch catfish any ideas on where we should start? What to use? I'm lost when it comes to catfish as I mostly fish for bass....

Thanks for any help I can get!!!

It's been two weeks since I was there, but the pattern is probably the same. I was fishing points/creek channels in the treess in 20-30' of water. I was fishing points around Indian Creek and Wolf Branch.

Most of the stores up there sell some type of punch bait that should work. I was using Sure Shot and fishing two turns off the bottom.

Good luck...there are a lot of channel cats in that lake.

Thanks Grady I'm just hoping to get my friends on some fish...

You didn't hear this from me (my fishing buddies would kill me, lol), but the best luck I have had was evening time, under the bridges, starting around 8pm. The best bridge I have hit yeilded about 100 or so fish, mix cat, crappie, and sandies, within two nights of fishing. Tie off between pylon 3 and 4 or 4 and 5. PM or email me for directions to the spot, its easy to find.

I started off with Little Stinker rotten shad with dipping worms and chicken liver all bought at Walmart. At that time I dropped my crappie light in the water. About 1 1/2 hours later my boat was swarmed with thousands of shad. I threw a shad net out and had a bucket full of bait. I still have shad in my freezer from it.

The best way to present the shad on your hook for catfish is to take your pocket knife or fillet knife and fillet one side of the shad, starting at the tail and stopping at the gill. Keep the fillet attatched to the shad. Fold the flap over and run your hook through it and the head, then pass it back through the back side of the body, keeping it as straight as possible. This expose the guts. I would toss one out to the flats on the outside of the bridge on each side and dropped one straight down, pulling it up a coule of turns.

Make sure you pack your needle nose pliers. I landed 2 aligator gar the second night.

Thanks Dean!!

My email is monte.coon@moritzmail.com

k. got your pm and you have good directions to the spot. my cell number is listed in my signature, so take it along and call me if you have any problems or need anything while you are down this way.