Tag: Richard Simms

Chasin’ Cats guide Jimmi Brown shows off a trophy-sized channel catfish caught in central Iowa. Photo courtesy of Jimmi Brown Guide of the Month: Jimmi Brown, Chasin Cats by Capt. ...

Brittany and Bryan Sapp routinely travel from Pennsylvania to catfish with Scenic City Fishing Charters. On one of those trips, they targeted flatheads on the Guntersville headwaters with great success. ...

 Matt ‘Catmatt” Jones specializes in seeking trophy flatheads on Illinois’ Rock River. He has retired from full-time guiding, but continues part time and is one of those rare guides who ...

Capt. Richard Simms, his guide partners and friends have been catching a surprising number of piebald blue catfish from the Tennessee River near Chattanooga, Tennessee. These are just a few ...

Katie Allen admits she is still climbing the learning curve on catfishing, but it is quite clear that she enjoys the work. (Contributed Photo) Katie Allen: Climbing the Catfish Learning ...

Aaron and Vivian Hurley learned firsthand that the sometimes-swift tailwater areas below Tennessee River dams can be outstanding locations to target big blue catfish.   Tailwater Catfishing A-to-Z Story and ...

Marc Cooper and girlfriend, Katie Allen, show off a 30-pound blue taken pulling planer boards in relatively shallow water in the back end of a slough off the Tennessee River. ...

These pictures all have one thing in common, and it’s not the catfish. Look in the background and you will see the well-known Tennessee Aquarium in downtown Chattanooga. There are ...

Fisheries biologists say that color is sometimes the worst way to distinguish one fish species from another. For various reasons outlined below, there are times when even big channel catfish ...

Capt. Sam Simons shows off a monster blue taken inside the city limits of Chattanooga, in the tailwaters of Chickamauga Dam. While TVA dams built 80 years ago negatively impacted ...