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Billy Blakely On How To Catch More Catfish On Strike King Catfish Bait

Dynamite Cats

Billy BlakelyEditor's Note: Billy Blakely, a guide on Reelfoot Lake in northwest Tennessee, is a member of Strike King’s professional guide service, and is known as the “Cat Master.” Throughout most of the year, Blakely can produce a hundred pounds of catfish or more every day he fishes. For the next five days, Blakely will tell us all how to catch more cats on Strike King’s catfish bait.

Blakely: I like to use Strike King’s Catfish Dynamite on Strike King’s catfish dip worms and fish them around logs and stumps to catch cats. I’ll put a half-ounce slip sinker up the line, a barrel swivel on the end of the main line and a 2-foot leader coming off the swivel. I tie the dipworm on to the end of the leader and then dip the bait in Catfish Dynamite. I’ll fish this rig around logs and stumps in the lake. The catfish like to lay up against or under some type of wood cover. This technique can produce plenty of catfish throughout the spring, summer and fall. Our catfish will weigh from a pound to 15- or 20-pounds each.

Catfish DynamiteI like to anchor well away from the log that I’m going to fish. I use a heavy-action 7-foot Quantum rod with a bait-casting reel and 25-pound-test line. I cast to the log and let the bait float down right beside the log. You’ve got to have that heavy tackle to power a big cat away from the log when it takes the bait. The best day I’ve ever had using this technique and Catfish Dynamite Dough, I caught 111 cats that weighed over 500-pounds total. This is an extremely deadly technique for catching plenty of big cats.

To contact Blakely and to fish at Blue Bank Resort, write Rt. 1, Box 970, Tiptonville, TN 38079 or call (901) 253-6878. You can also visit them on the web at www.bluebankresort.com or e-mail them at fish@bluebankresort.com.

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