Tag: Richard Simms

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 ...

Capt. Richard Simms (the author) with his first-ever 30-pound blue catfish caught August 28, 2004, under the tutelage of his friend, Doug Williams.   Why We Catfish By Capt. Richard ...

Terry Madewell, a frequent contributor to CatfishNOW, had never used this particular light-tackle technique for catfish. But he and his daughter Melissa got an excellent taste of how it works ...

Since he has been down this road before, Micka Burkhart knew exactly where to go to weigh his likely new Tennessee state record catfish (122.3 pounds). He said he called ...

Light Line Drifting for Catfish by Ron Presley Free-line drifting with 10-pound mono proves to be challenging and productive catfishing. My first light tackle blue came on a piece of ...

Big or small, famous guide James “Big Cat” Patterson never met a catfish he didn’t like. (Photo: Richard Simms)   James “Big Cat” Patterson: Where Is He Now? by Richard ...