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                Hello all and thanks for checking in at The O’Grady Fly Fishing Adventures. I wanted to start by wishing you all a wonderful Easter. As a Christian man I know that this is what it is

The Ice Bowl tournament is behind us and NC has yet another win under it’s belt! Largely thanks to Brad “The Grateful” Smalt and Joel Boyd who landed a 103 pound blue catfish to win the tournament.  I actually met Brad at the Ice

The July fishing here in Fort Worth was simply nothing short of amazing and I fully expect this bite will continue through August and September. We’ve been consistently catching excellent numbers of channel catfish and blue catfish daily. There

Courtesy Michael Peters Yacht Design On the Drawing Board The smell of sawdust around a boatbuilder’s shop generally means one thing: There’s a new boat splashing soon. Around the country both production and custom boatyards are in const

The August fishing here in Fort Worth was again nothing short of amazing. We’ve continued to catch amazing numbers of blue catfish and channel catfish daily and had a 100% success rate for the month of August. I fully expect this bite will cont

Water temperatures are cooling and there’s more cold weather on the way this week which will continue to drop water temps and the fishing for blue catfish will continue to improve. We’ve had a lot of rain recently and the lake is almost f

          Hello all and thanks for checking in at The O’Grady Fly Fishing Adventures. Now I have heard the stories many times over the years but I’m not sure I have ever actually asked the question are we th

Water stained; 57 – 65 degrees; 7.29' low. Black bass are excellent on 1/8 oz. Texas rigged watermelon red Yamamoto creature baits and chartreuse or pumpkin Baby Brush Hogs sprayed with Kick N Bass in 5 – 8 feet. Striped bass are slow

We had a big front the week before Thanksgiving that dropped the water temperatures quickly and water temps were unseasonably cool for late November and the big fish bite really fired up. We’ve been catching some good numbers of larger blue cat

   Hello all and thanks for checking in at the O’Grady Flyfishing Adventures. I wanted to write today a little about why I absolutely love flyfishing and how it may allow me to live a long and healthy life. Cat and I got to spen

January has packed some brutal cold fronts so far and water temps have plummeted into the low 30’s.  To the delight of seagulls and blue catfish most lakes in the area suffered a significant shad kill this month.  These cold temps com

  Hello all and thanks again for tuning in to the O’Grady fly fishing adventures blog. I have written a little in the past about the difficulties Cat and I have about trying to get out of town for any extended period of time. I am not com

Richard Gibson While there might be a few places in the world with more blue marlin bites than the Bahamas none of them are nearly as convenient or as close by. Modern technology has made the world a much smaller place in the past few decades and fe

Blue Catfish

We fished three days last week on the T.O.P. Cat here in the Gulf of Chiriquí Panama. Two days with returning client Gary out of our private island lodge on Isla Paridas and one day charter out of the Seagullcove Lodge in Boca Chica with father

Blue Catfish

Water fairly clear; 61 – 63 degrees; 0.15' high. Black bass are good on crankbaits spinnerbaits and soft plastics. Striped bass are slow. White bass are good on soft plastics slabs and Rat–L–Traps in the north end of the lake. C

   Hey all and thanks again for checking in at The O’Grady Flyfishing Adventures. I was flipping through the Simms product catalog the other day and came across their Women’s Guide Jacket.   It seemed like a really nice it

    Hello all and Happy Halloween to all our readers. As I have said in the past while growing up October 31 st was pretty much my favorite day of the year. I know that with age some of the excitement has weaned over the years but I still

It’s that time of year April is here and the BLUE CATFISH ARE ON FIRE and the bite will continue to improve over the next week. If you want fast action and lots of numbers of blue catfish now is the time. The spring blue catfish bite usually ru