About Us

Hello Everyone! We wanted to give a little bit of information about ourselves and tell some of our story to all of you. We live in Pennsylvania and absolutely love Fishing! We are conservation minded and proud of it. We are Pro staff with Katfish clothing, Hookers Terminal Tackle, and Influencers for Catch the Fever. We Have a YouTube channel, Tik Tok, and Facebook for all of our content that we create.Every Wednesday is Wicked Wednesdays which includes a new video. On weekdays we work at our Auto Repair shop, where we restore old cars, do crazy engine swaps, and amazing show quality Paint work. In the evening time & on weekends we go fishing. We also have a mobile bait & tackle trailer that we set up along the river on Fridays and Saturdays. Captain Sam has been fishing since he was 12 years old. Lex was introduced by Captain Sam in 2018. After Captain Sam took Lex out on a flathead Catfish charter on his boat she fell in Love with these fish just as much as he did. We both decided we wanted to learn all that we could about them. These fish go into a hibernating state in November which means they're very inactive. So we decided to chase after the blue catfish on the Potomac River. Captain Sam knew how big these fish can get after landing his personal best 89 lb blue catfish back in 2017. Lex however had no clue. “My first blue weighed 40 pounds,” revealed Lex. “I caught it right outside of Washington, D.C. A few months later we went to the James River in VA and I caught a 65-pound blue. I felt like a mermaid hugging a dolphin with that fish!”. In 2022 Sam took Lex on an adventure to the James River and broke her personal best blue cat weight. She caught an 82 lb blue." The feeling of catching such a fish and seeing it swim away to grow bigger is such a great feeling and its indescribable." We both continued to study the flathead and blue catfish. The tournament fishing as a couple started in 2018. Captain Sam and Lex have participated in several big tournaments all along the east coast. “We have met some amazing people through catfishing,” & “We refer to the catfishing world as our family and we call our fellow anglers our fishing brothers and sisters.” We are all about C.P.R. (catch photo and release) on the catfish weighing over 5 lbs in any body of water. We have been Noticing some of the practices of other anglers & them wanting to keep trophy size catfish. Some don't understand how that trophy fish could continue to grow & could bring joy to another angler in the future. We both try to pass on any information we learn to others. We don't hide the spots we fish and we hope to get our clients on a fish of a lifetime. To us fishing is equals happiness.

 We are all about promoting conservation principles like selective harvest, CPR, and fish handling in general. We understand that catfish is good eating and some anglers catch them to feed their family. Were not against anyone eating fish, we do however hope to see more people start releasing the trophy fish. “Anglers need to understand that releasing the trophies is good for the future of catfishing,” Our goal is to protect the bigger fish and put a regulation on fish weighing more than 30 pounds. ”We like to teach our clients good fish handling methods before and during release. Fish handling is also an important issue. We can use noodling as an example, but it is just as important in rod and reel fishing and especially in tournament fishing. We're rod and reel anglers only! “Noodling is illegal in Pennsylvania but we see examples of it  on social media. Many catfish that are noodled end up having complications and or die later, mostly from poor handling. It also typically happens during their spawn. “It is very important to hold any fish correctly,” We have seen online photos and people at tournaments holding their fish through the gills. The delicate red gills of a fish make up its respiratory organ and are equivalent to the human lungs. They are responsible for extracting the dissolved oxygen from the water and excreting the carbon dioxide. Damage to the gills is likely to cause the fish to die. With that said, we believe the best way to hold a fish is by the mouth while supporting it horizontally.” These fish are very misunderstood, and there is a lot of research still being conducted to prove that these fish are not destroying the  ecosystems and causing the decline of crab populations and other types of fish. It's the commercial fishing, pollution, and humans that are the cause. Some of the catfish are actually native to the waterways and not invasive like some claim. This is a passion that we share & We will never stop fighting for these fish. We read a story a few years ago that we relate to the catfish... and it goes something like this. “It’s a short story called Making a difference, “It’s very relevant to our story and how we hope we can make make a difference."

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                  Making a difference

 

An old man walking along the beach came upon a little boy sifting through debris. Every so often he would see the boy pick up a starfish and toss it back to sea. The old man asked the purpose of his efforts. The boy told him that the tide has washed the starfish onto the beach and that they will die unless he threw them back. The old man looked at the miles of beach and said there are more starfish than you could ever save, you cannot make a difference. The child bent down to pick up another starfish and sent it back to the sea. He looked up at the old man, smiled, and replied, “I can make a difference to this one!”

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