Member Library Table of Contents

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Last Updated: 3/8/11

Maintaining And Modifying Fishing Equipment

Boat, Motor and Trailer Maintenance, Modifications and Repair

Installing a Keelshield on a Catfish Boat

Installing a Keelshield on your Catfish Boat

Darryl's Rope Organizers

Rebuilding An Old Pontoon Boat

Sam's Catfish Boat Lights

Repacking Trailer Wheel Bearings

Adjustable Boat Seat "Z-Bars"

Dink's Jack Bars

How I built a "Jack Plate" for my Boat

Pontoon Boat Modification Under the Deck

Catoon Alternative Anchoring System

A Pond Catfish Boat

Lighting Idea for Night Catfishing

Modifications for a Pontoon Boat

Pontoon Anchoring System

Installing a Whale Tail on a Catfish Boat

Installing a Bow Mount Trolliing Motor on a Catfishing Boat

Wiring Your Catfish Boat for Night Catfishing

Winterizing Your Catfish Boat

Tutorial on Waterpump Installation

Tutorial for Rebuilding Carburetors

Skipeye's LED Deck Lighting For Night Fishing

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Boat and Trailer Accessories and Gadgets - Anchors, etc.

Boat Ramp Wheel Chock

Trailer Hitch Aiming Device

Light Pole for Night Fishing

Joe's Anchor

An Anchor for Catfishing

BBQ and Campstove for a Pontoon Boat

Chuck99's Boat Cover

Fish's Idea for Quick Hookup to Boat Trailer

Re-boarding Ladder

Heavy Duty Anchor

Fix for Hard To Load Boat Trailers

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Rod Holders For The Boat

PVC Rod Holders for your Catfish Boat

Scott's River Rod Holders

Dave's Rod Rack for a Catfish Boat

Driftmaster Catfish Rod Holder Installation

Riverratsc's Catfishing Boat Rod Holders

Easy Rod Holders

Driftmaster Style Rod Holder Mounts

Drifter's PVC Rod Holders

Rookie12's Driftmaster Rigs

BKS72's Boat Rod Holder Rack

Willcat's Pontoon Rod Holders

Metalman's Rod Rack for Boat

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Bank Rod Holders

Harold's Rod Holders

Sal's Hog Holders

Netmanjack's pvc bank rod holders

Cheap and Easy to Make Bank Rod Holders

Arlan's Bank Rod Holders

Dean's Dock Rod Holders

Frosty's Bank Rod Holders

Truckerfisher's Bumper Mounted Rod Holders

Fordman's Bank Rod Holders

Jtrew's Bank Rod Holders

Homemade Bank Rod Holders

DJ's Bank Rod Pod

Eddie's Bank Rod Holders

Keith's Cheap Bank Rod Holders

PVC Bank Rod Holders

T-Bar Rod Holder

D_Weezy's Rod Holders for Pier and Bank

Combination Bank Rod Holder/Carry-all

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Home Rod Storage/Rod Carriers

Shinchan's Rod Carrier

DRC's Rod Storage System

Rat's Complete Home Rod Storage System

Rat's Rod Rack

Big George's Rod Storage System

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Rod and Reel Information

Replacing or Upgrading Drag Washers For Ambassadeur Reels

Homemade Rod Guide Wrapping Table

Inexpensive Rod Protectors

Adding A Clicker To An Ambassadeur Reel That Doesn't Have One

Changing The Bushings To Bearings In Ambassadeur Reels

Disassembly and Re-assembly of a Penn Peerless #9

Cleaning and Lubrication Tutorial for ABU 6500 CL3

Drag Maintenance

Anti-Reverse on an AZ-90

Fixing a Master 180 Clicker

Star Drag Maintenance

Reel Lubrication

Tips on Caring for your Reel

Cleaning and Repairing a Mitchell 300

Disassembly and Assembly of a Baitcaster

Adjusting the Bearing Cap on a Penn Reel

Rod Maintenance

Line Pawl Lubrication

Thoughts on Reel Bearings

Reel Care

How To Set The Drag On Your Reel

Learning To Cast A Baitcaster

Casting Distance

Reparing the clicker on an Ambassadeur Reel

Build Your Own Custom Rod

Abu 7000iC3 Gear Upgrade (Slow gear ratio to fast gear ratio)



Gear Maintenance and Repair

Q-Beam Modification (Fixing The Weak Link)

Waddy's Electric Lantern Modification

Troubleshooting a Gas Lantern

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Fishing Tackle

Hooks

Snelling Hooks for a Catfish Rig

A Circle Hook Tutorial

Circle Hook Dimensions

Snelling Hooks for Catfish

Snelling Catfish Hooks

Circle Hooks - Love Em Or Hate Em!

A Lesson On Fish Hooks

A Look At Circle Hooks

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Rigs

Make Your Own Steel Leaders For Catching Catfish

Spider Hitch Double Leader Rig for Catfishing

Spider Catfish Hook and Rig Storage

Alternative Paternoster Rig

How to Make a Hair Rig for Catfishing

Slip Bobber Rig For Catfish

Paternoster Rig

Stinger Rig for Catfishing

Basic Catfishing Rigs

Balloon Slip Rigs For Catfish

Suspended Floating Rig

Chumming Rig with pictures

Tangle Minimizing Rig

Cork Fishing Rigs


Knots

Knot For Catfishing


Storage And Organization

Catfish Tackle Organization

Catfish Tackle Organization(Video)

Storage for Sabiki Rigs

Storage for Catfish Hooks

Pre-tied Leader Caddy

Tackle Storage For Pontoon Boats


Slip Bobbers

Bobber Stops for Catfishing

Catfishing Slip Bobbers

Balloon Float Rig

Slip Bobber (Easy Made)

Rollo's Homemade Slip-Floats For Livebait Flathead Fishing

Home Made Bobber Stops


Sinkers - Descriptions, Making, etc.

“No Snag” or “Flat Spoon” Sinkers

Dave's Exhaust Fan for Sinker Making

Beer Can Sinkers for Catfishing

Free Lead Sinkers for Catfishing

Sacrificial Sinkers

Sinker Making: Turning Wheel Weights into Ingots

Pouring Sinkers at Home

Sinkers Identification

Making "No Snag" Sinkers

Making Drift Sinkers

Sinkers You Can Make At Home

Soda Can Sinker Mold

No Snag Sinkers That Snag

Dual purpose homemade sinker/Chum box

Home Made Claw Sinker

No-roll Sinker Mold out of sheetrock

Making "No Snag" Pencil Sinkers

Making the most of your No Roll Sinker Mold

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Fishing Line

Storing Extra Line Neatly

Setting the Hook and Using the Drag with Braided Line

Cheap Way to Spool Line

Using Circle Hooks With Mono Line

Abrasion Resistance


Bite Alarms and Detectors

Baby-Clicker monitor - A Strike indicator for catfishing

Easy Homemade Bite Detector

Jeremy's Night Catfishing Bite Detectors

Joel's Bite Detector for Catfishing

Frosty's Hook Set System

Rat's Bite Detector for Night Catfishing

Verotik's Bite Detector for Catfishing


Gadgets and Gear You Can Make at Home

Tina's Gar Lures

Homemade Electric Fish Scaler

Building Crappie Condos

Creating Fishing Structure

Creating Structure For Fishing

Homemade 30 foot Bait/Landing Net

Cheap Accessory Savers

Homemade Bobbers for Catfishing

Homemade Bobbers

Doc's Drift Buckets

Catfishcentral's Fish Cradle

Omni 2" Glow Light Stick Holder

Tip: Cost effective Small Screen protector, GPS,Fishfinder,PDA

Tip for saving snagged rigs

Shane's Drop Net

Bill's Drift Buckets

Homemade Planer Board

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Bait

Cut Bait

Marina Bait for Catching Catfish

Butterfly Shad Rig

Cut Bait for Catfish

Advance Cut Bait for Catfish

Flylining Cut Bait For Catfish

Frozen Bait for Blue Catfish


Live Bait

Bluegill For Catfish Bait

Rigging Live Bait for Catfish

Bullheads For Live Bait

River Chubs And Creek Chubs For Catfish Bait

Leopard Frogs For Catfish Bait

Chubs For Catfish Bait


Chumming

Chum For Catfish

Frosty's Chum Bait For Catfish

Chumming For Catfish With Mackeral

So You Want To Try Chumming For Catfish


Bait tips

Frozen Ice Bottle to keep Bait Fresh

Hot Dip Bait Tip

Extracting Fish Oils

Making Plump Nightcrawlers For Catfishing

Keeping Livers and Bait Cold

How to Keep Livers on the Hook

Carl's Process for making your own plastic bait worms for stink bait.


Cured Baits

Liver Curing Rack

Dehydrated Livers for Catfishing

Skipjacks Cured For Catfish Bait

Garlic Cured Chicken Livers With Pics


Catching Bait

Catching Shad With a Dip Basket

Saltines to Catch Chubs in a Trap

Rock Bass and You


Raising Your Own Bait

Raising Worms for Catfishing

Making Your Own Worm Bed

Raising Your Own Worms For Fishing Bait

Raising Worms For Catfish Bait

Raising Your Own Meal Worms For Catfishing

Raising Your Own Wax Worms

Jim Ame's Worm Beds

Kathryn's Worm Beds


Cast Nets - Use and Repair

How to throw a Castnet. Pics and Video

Keith's Way to Throw a Castnet

Castnet Braille Line Repair

Castnet Improvements

Throw A Castnet

Getting a New Cast Net Ready for Use

Throwing a Castnet

Throwing a Castnet From The Bank

Using a Castnet


Bait Tanks, Livewells, Bait Buckets And Bait Traps

Livewells

Boogie's Catfish Keeper

Mesh Bag Livewell

Floating Livewell

Cheap Portable Livewell

Sleekcraft's Dock Livewell

Riverking's Tournament Livewell

How to bulid a custom shaped livewell

Ross's Cheap and Easy Livewell

Fish Crate From a Mile Crate

Mandingo"s Livewell

HillJack Culling System

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Bait Tanks For Use On A Boat

Bait Tank Filter

Rod's Bait Well

Jim Leonard's Bait Well

Bait Well From a Cooler

Rubbermaid Bait Tank

Igloo Bait Tank

Tim's Boat Bait Tank

Bait Tank for a Catfish Boat

Catfishcentral's Bait Tank (Ver 2)

Bait Basket

Shad Tanks and Keeping Bait

Catfish John's Live Bait Holder

Jeff's Bait Tank

Keep Alive Shad Tank Filter Conversion

Martygreen's Bait Tank

Ace's Home Made Bait Tank

Bait Tank Ideas

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Bait Tanks For Home Bait Storage

Michael Howard's Bait Tank

Jason's Bait Tank

BAM's Oxygen Infused Bait Tank Pump

Maintaining a Bullhead Bait Tank

Bathtub Bait Tank

DKS72's Bait Tank Filter/Aeration System

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Bait Boards

Shad Cutting Table for a Catfishing Boat

Bait Cutting Tray

Catfish Fever's Bait Board

Old Bill's Fish Cleaning Table


Bait Buckets

5 Gallon Bucket Modification

Portable Tackle and Bait Tank Bucket

Chris's Bait Bucket

Catfishrollo's Homemade Bait Bucket

Tbartek's Live Bluegill Bag

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Chum Tubes

Catfish Chum Tube

PVC Chum Tube


Homemade Bait Traps

Making A Custom Minnow Trap

Rat's Crawdad Trap

Michael Howard's Bream Trap

A Bluegill Trap You can Build Yourself

Live Well and Bait Traps

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Fishing Advice

Channel Catfish

Fishing Causeways for Channel Catfish

Winter Fishing For Channel Cats


Flathead Catfish

Reservoir Flatheads

Flathead Hunting

Fishing For Flatheads

Advice For Catching Flatheads

Flatheads and Light

Flathead Bank Fishing Savvy

5 Things a Beginner Flathead Fisherman Needs To Know.


Blue Catfish

Bluecats In The Winter

Southern Recipe for Springtime Bluecats


All Other Fish

Carp Fishing - UK Style

Catching Bullheads 101


Fishing Strategy

Fishing A Feeder Creek

Fall feeding Frenzy

Bird Watching!!

Tight Line Or Slack Line For Catfish

Tight Lines

Finding Catfish

Putting The Odds In Your Favor

Night Fishing From The Bank

Pond Fishing For Beginners

Choosing The Right Bait For Where You Are Fishing

Tips for those hot slow fishing months on the ohio river banks


Fishing Locations

Power Plant Cooling Lake For Catfish

Location, Location, Location = Structure

Fishing Locations

Bank Fishing? Take a Look Around

River Fishing

Up-River Current Breaks

Fishing River Banks

Bank Fishing For Trophy Catfish


Fishing Methods - Drifting, Slip Bobber, Lures, etc.

Slowing The Drift When Catfishing a River

Ice Fishing For Catfish

Drift Fishing A Lake for Catfish

Drift Fishing for Catfish in a Lake

Fishing From A Dock For Catfish

Dock Catfishing

Balloon Lines For Catfish

Drift Fishing A River

Catfish Through The Ice

Catfishing With A Bobber

Slip Bobber Fishing

Cuz's Creeping Rig

Bwhupp's Drift Fishing Rig


Misc Fishing Information and Advice

Items to Remember to Bring Catfishing

Things to take fishing that might save your life

Lactic Acidosis

Once in a Lifetime Fish---Are You Ready?

Keeping That Fish Alive To Fight Another Day

First Aid For A Pond

Catfish Names and Descriptions

Show Me Catfishing

Factor In

A Beginners Guide to Catfishing - Part 1

Scouting for Catfish

Keeping Fishing Journals

The Balancing Act OF Selective Harvest

I knew That!! Practical Member Tips to Help Improve Your Fishing Success/Save Money


Fish Cleaning, Storing, etc.

How to Dress Large Catfish

Cleaning a Catfish With an Electric Knife

Adam's Way To Clean Catfish

Cleaning Bluegill

Freezing Catfish

Dano's Catfish Cleaning Station


Lake and River Info and Advice

How To Lock Through A Dam

Stratification

Thermal Stratification and lake turn over.

Thermal Stratification

Thermocline


Jugs, Trotlines, Limblines, etc.

Catfishing Trotline Storage

Dink's Trotline Storage

Using a Jumpbox for a Catfish Trotline

GentleBen's Flagging Jugs

Trotline Storage for Catfishing

Wally's Jug Fishing For Catfish

Pop-Up Jug/Boblines for Catfishing

Ryno's Noodle Jugs

Trotlining Surprises

Trotlining 101

Noodle Jugs For Catfishing

Mike's Limblines For Catfish

Jumpbox By Jtrew

Catfishing Jugs By Jtrew

Big River Trotlines

How to Make Trotline/Throwline Weights

Trotline Weights Made Simple

Albert's Trotline 101

Pool Noodle Floats - Cheap

Lighted Jugs

Jugs From Buoy Markers

Trotlining In The Heat Of Summer


Weather and Fishing

Barometric Pressure and Fishing

Fronts

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Other Useful Information

Boating Information - Safety and Use

Tying Your Catfish Boat off to a Tree

Max Engine Size for My Boat

Jumper Cables for the Boat

Anchoring Your Boat

Tools For The Boat

Fire Extinguisher Saftey

Anchoring 101

Standard Marine Wire Code Table

Auto-inflate PFD's and cold weather

Coffee Grounds - Organics for your garden



Camping Information

Firestarters for Campfires

Perks for Seniors and Disabled

Campfire Building

Building a Fire for Camping

Building a Campfire the Right Way

Another Campfire Starter

Never Fail Campfire Starter


Misc

Ed's Air Rifle Info

Ed's Air Rifle Repair, Service and Warranty Info

Proper Saluting Etiquette for funerals with Military Honors

PeeWee's Tips and Tricks

Keeping a Filet Knife in Good Shape

"Luck" What Part Does It Play In Your Fishing

Convenience

BBQ 101

Taking Pictures of Fish

Catfish Environments

Simple Commands to Help you Navigate Windows

Simple Commands for Cut and Paste in BOC CHAT

Sportsmen's Field Care Procedures

Snapper: From field to table, illustrated

CatfishHateMe's Survival Kit

Things to Know About Hypothermia.

Ohm's Law for Electrical Wiring Projects

How and Why Boats & RV's Fiberglass Gelcoat Fades

Why Do Vehicle Paints Fade and What Can I Do to Repair It?

Why Paint Fades

Placing and Removing an RV in Storage

Homemade Smoker From A 55 Gallon Drum


Hunting & Trapping Gadgets

Jon Saxon's Home Made Digital Trail Camera

Building A Folding Colony Trap

No Spill Scent Container

A Simple, But Cheap Dog Proof Coon Trap

Trail camera 101

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