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Over the years North Texas Catfish Guide Service has filmed several episodes with the Divas in the Outdoors TV Show and our good friend Judy Rhoades.


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Over the years North Texas Catfish Guide Service has filmed several episodes with the Lady On The Lake Outdoors TV Show and our good friend Bonita Staples.


The Toyota Trucks Outdoors Report on Fox Sports Southwest with Barry Stokes

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Over the years North Texas Catfish Guide Service has filmed several episodes with the Toyota Trucks Southwest Outdoors Report TV Show and our good friend Barry Stokes.



Typical results from a spring guided catfish fishing trip with North Texas Catfish Guide Service. Limits of Texas blue catfish are easily attainable in short timeframes fishing in shallow water in late March, April and early May. This is the most fun you will ever have fishing if you are after numbers of blue catfish.





More typical results from a Spring shallow water blue catfish fishing trip on Lake Lewisville or Eagle Mountain Lake with Chad Ferguson of North Texas Catfish Guide Service.





Winter is the time for catching big Texas trophy blue catfish, fish to 50 lbs are very common and multiple big fish in one trip are common results. North Texas Catfish Guide Service has a provem track record of catching big Texas trophy blue catfish.





Another big Texas winter blue catfish caught with Chad Ferguson of North Texas Catfish Guide Service on a guided catfish fishing trip. Catching a big Texas blue catfish like this on rod and reel will change the way that you look at catching catfish in Texas!  These clients from West Texas had a blast fishing with North Texas Catfish Guide Service. We have clients drive in from Abilene, Midland, Odessa, Lubbock and all over West Texas all the time because they know how good the fishing is when fishing with Chad Ferguson of North Texas Catfish Guide Service!




Flathead catfish are occassionally caught on Winter trophy catfish fishing trips but the best time for catching Texas flathead catfish (often called yellow catfish) is in the late Spring and Summer at night. North Texas Catfish Guide Service offers flathead catfish fishing trips if that is what you are after!




My good friend Lane Halfmann joined me for a couple of hours one morning to catch some blue catfish on Lake Lewisville and ended up with his personal best catfish of 10 lbs.




This is a shot of my good friend Barry Stokes filming the end of the Toyota Trucks Southwest Outdoors Report with North Texas Catfish Guide Service on Lake Lewisville.




This is me, Chad Ferguson, your Texas Catfish Fishing Guide with a trophy class blue catfish. I don't get to get in the pictures very often!



Some long time clients of mine with this MONSTER blue catfish they caught on a guided fishing trip with me for TROPHY catfish! We caught some amazing fish this day.




Here are the guys again with a big monster Texas flathead catfish caught a few minutes after the big Texas blue catfish pictured above. Big Texas catfish like this will really get you warmed up on a cold and rainy winter day of fishing in North Texas




Another long time client fighting a big trophy blue catfish on a guided fishing trip with Chad Ferguson of North Texas Catfish Guide Service.




Besides the excellent fishing we like to take time to enjoy the outdoors like this beautiful sunset on Eagle Mountain Lake!




These clients drove in from East Texas for a fabulous day of fishing with North Texas Catfish Guide service during a cool fall day. Limits of blue catfish and channel catfish are common many times of the year on our guided fishing trips.





Our Xpress HD22CC Center Console boat used on our guided catfish trips on Eagle Mountain Lake, Lake Lewisville, Lake Worth and the Brazos River. This big 22 foot center console bay fishing boat offers plenty of room to fish comfortably and a dry and safe ride on the water. It is outfitted with all of the best catfish fishing gear and equipment so we have a great day catching fish. 




Welcome to Chad Ferguson's North Texas Catfish Guide Service - Your premier destination for fishing for North Texas Catfish!
BOOK NOW FOR THE CATFISH FISHING TRIP OF A LIFETIME!


LAKE LEWISVILLE GUIDED FISHING TRIPS
CATFISH - TROPHY CATFISH - SANDBASS - HYBRID STRIPED BASS - GAR

North Texas Catfish Guide Service is proud to call Lake Lewisville home. Lake Lewisville is located in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex North of Lewisville Texas and South of Denton Texas. Lake Lewisville is about a twenty minute drive from Dallas Texas or DFW International Airport, or less than a thirty minute drive from Fort Worth Texas. The Lake Lewisville area also hosts numerous dining and entertainment options making it a popular area for tourism.

Lake Lewisville was impounded in 1954 and covers a surface area of 29, 592 acres with a maxium depth of 67 feet. Lake Lewisville sits on the Elm Fork of the Trinity River. Prior to Lake Lewisville being impounded in 1954, Lake Dallas and Garza Little Elm Reservoir existed in the area and then Lake Lewisville was built to join the old Garza Little Elm Reservoir and Lake Dallas.

Lake Lewisville has had a long standing reputation for being an excellent lake for catching Texas Blue Catfish, Channel Catfish and Flathead Catfish and was really put on the map in the late 1990's and early 2000's for producing amazing numbers of Trophy Blue Catfish. Lake Lewisville also held the state record flathead catfish during the 1980's as well. Lake Lewisville has been continually called "the best catfish lake in Texas" by many of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Biologists for many years. There is no doubt that Lake Lewisville holds excellent numbers of Blue Catfish, Trophy Blue Catfish, Channel Catfish and Flathead Catfish.

In addition to producing excellent catches of Catfish, Lake Lewisville also holds excellent numbers of Sandbass (White Bass) and Hybrid Striped Bass, and Gar. Lake Lewisville is a deep reservoir with lot's of main lake structure and plenty of flooded timber throughout the entire lake that was never cleared, leaving an excellent habitat for the Lake Lewisville Catfish, Lake Lewisville White Bass, Lake Lewisville Hybrid Striped Bass and Lake Lewisville White Bass. Much of the old Lake Dallas is full of flooded timber, the Hickory Creek and Little Elm arms are full of flooded timber, and the main lake of Lake Lewisville still holds large areas of flooded trees and timber that are still standing. Many areas of Lake Lewisville still have tree tops sticking out of the water in 50 foot of water. Lake Lewisville also has an excellent population of Threadfin Shad and Gizzard Shad.

Lake Lewisville's Hybrid Striped Bass population has really taken off in the last few years thanks to agressive stocking programs from Texas Parks and Wildlife. North Texas Catfish Guide Service has been producing excellent results of Hybrid Striped Bass catches on Lake Lewisville Guided Fishing Trips for several years now, in addition to the excellent catches of Lake Lewisville White Bass and Lake Lewisville Blue Catfish and Channel Catfish. Lake Lewisville also has excellent populations of Gar create opportunities for Summer Gar fishing.

Lake Lewisville is an excellent choice for a guided fishing trip with North Texas Catfish Guide service and always produces some nice blue catfish and channel catfish, as well as hybrid striped bass and white bass.. If your wanting to catch some nice "eating sized" blue catfish or channel catfish or get your line stretched by a Trophy Blue Catfish then Lake Lewisville is an excellent choice for your guided fishing trip with North Texas Catfish Guide Service..

Lake Dallas is the "Old Lake" and many still refer to the upper Northwest arm of Lake Lewisville as Lake Dallas so if you hear someone tlking about Lake Dallas catfish or Lake Dallas Fishing it is actually Lake Lewisville catfish or Lake Lewisville Fishing they are referraing to.

Food and lodging are available in the Nearby Towns of Lewisville, Shady Shores, Lake Dallas and Hickory Creek and there are several state parks and RV parks in different areas around the lake for camping on Lake Lewisville or parking your RV on Lake Lewisville. Look towards the bottom of this page for Lake Lewisville lodging recommendations and Lake Lewisville Camping reccomendations.

Lake Lewisville Fishing and Catfishing is excellent year around so any time of the year would be a great time for a guided fishing trip with North Texas Catfish Guide Service.

For Winter Fishing or Catfishing on Lake Lewisville North Texas Catfish Guide Service will Focus on Lake Lewisville Trophy Blue Catfish. The Lake Lewisville Trophy Blue Catfish Trips with North Texas Catfish Guide Service are Catch and Release only on all catfish over 10 lbs and all Trophy Catfish Trips are done with rod and reel. Most of the catfish will average 25-30 pounds but catfish over 50 lbs are abundant in Lake Lewisville. The best time of the year for Trophy Blue Catfish (also called High Fin Blue Catfish or Mississippi White Catfish) are November, December, January, February and Early March. North Texas Catfish Guide Service will do it's best to put you on a big Lake Lewisville Trophy Blue Catfish and get your line stretched anytime your fishing with us though, not just in the dead of winter, but Winter is the peak time for catching Trophy Blue Catfish in Texas. If you want to greatly increase your odds of catching a Big Monster Texas Blue Catfish then you need to fish during the dead of Winter, because that's when the best catches of Trophy Blue Catfish always take place. While most of our fishing efforts are focused on catching Lake Lewisville Trophy Blue Catfish during our winter fishing trips on Lake Lewisville, Winter can also be an excellent time for catching Hybrid Striped Bass on Lake Lewisville as well.

We also have a great time with the Cormorant Catfishing on Lake Lewisville in the Fall and Winter for Lake Lewisville Blue Catfish and Lake Lewisville Channel Catfish. Cormorant Catfishing (also called "Fishing the Birds" or "Fishing the Water Turkeys") is a great way to catch a nice mess of Lake Lewisville Blue Catfish and Lake Lewisville Channel Catfish. Cormorant Catfishing Trips will start in early October and be good through the middle of spring, usually mid April. On Cormorant Catfishing trips on Lake Lewisville in the fall and winter most of the fish are usually blue catfish and average in size from one to ten pounds but an occasional Trophy Blue Catfish is possible and Blue Catfish in the 20-35 pound range are very common on cormorant catfishing trips on Lake Lewisville.

Once the weather at Lake Lewsiville begins to warm up the catfishing warms up as well. North Texas Catfish Guide Service will start focusing on structure fishing Lake Lewisville for Blue Catfish and Channel Catfish. The spring catfishing is some of the best fishing of the year for shear numbers of good quality catfish. It;s not uncommon to catch well over 100 Lake lewisville Blue Catfish on a spring trip with all the fish being 3 lbs and up with an occasional Trophy Blue Catfish in the mix as well. Spring Catfishing is typically excellent during the months of March, April and Early may with some amazing catches. This is one our favorite times of the year for catching numbers of "eating sized" 1-10 lb Blue Catfish. It is also in the Spring on Lake Lewisville that the White Bass and Hybrid Striped Bass really start putting their feedbags on anc really start feeding heavily making up for the cold water period. This period also encompasses the famous Texas White Bass run when the White Bass start spawning. Overall the spring is just an excellent time for catching numbers of fish whether it be White Bass (Sandbass) Hybrids or Catfish on Lake Lewisville.

Lake Lewisville is also known for large groups of feeding gulls in the late Winter and Spring that makes for some exciting fishing for White Bass (Sandbass) and Hybrid Striped Bass as wel during the late Winter on Lake Lewisville and Spring on Lake Lewisville.

As Summer approaches at Lake Lewisville, it will produce good numbers of Blue Catfish and Channel Catfish and some good sized fish as well. The rod and reel catfishing on Lake Lewisville remain good during the summer for the most part with good catches of Lake Lewisville Blue Catfish and Lake Lewisville Channel Catfish. . The White Bass and Hybrid Striped Bass fishing really heats up during the heat of the summer as well and fishing for Lake Lewisville White Bass and Lake Lewisville Hybrid Striped Bass generally remains excellent. White Bass and Hybrids will start surface feeding and we will use a number of techniques including slabbing, trolling, live bait fishing and top water fishing. When the days get really hot in the dead of summer, we will focus on fishing early mornings and late evenings and nights on Lake Lewisville. The catfishing stays great throughout the summer and some great catfishing will still take place on Lake Lewisville. Night fishing trips are also a great way to take in some Lake Lewsiville catfish in the summer and usually produces some really good numbers of catfish. We also offer Jug Fishing trips on Lake Lewisville during the summer for Lake Lewisville Blue Catfish and Lake Lewisville Channel Catfish. Rod and Reel fishing at night is also available for Flatehead Catfish on Lake Lewisville as well as Night Fishing for Blue Catfish and Lake Lewisville Channel Catfish. Gar fishing is also good on rod and reel during the days in the summer.

The bottom line is, the catfishing is great all year long and anytime is a great time to catch some Lake Lewisville Catfish. White Bass fishing is best on Lake Lewisville from March to October and the Hybrid Striped Bass Fishing on Lake Lewisville is generally good all year long. Just give us a call if your interested in booking a guided fishing trip with North Texas Catfish Guide Service for Lake Lewisville Blue Catfish, Lake Lewisville Channel Catfish, Lake Lewisville Trophy Catfish, Lake Lewisville White Bass (Sandbass) or Lake Lewisville Hybrids.

Your guided fishing trip on Lake Lewisville with North Texas Catfish Guide Service will begin at either the Shady Shores "Big Sandy Access Area" on the old lake or at the Tower Bay Park near the I-35 Bridge on Lake Lewisville. North Texas Catfish Guide Service will let you know what ramp to meet us at prior to your Lake Lewisville Guided Fishing Trip. Directions and information to these launch locations are below, as well as printable directions and Lake Lewisville lodging and camping reccomendations.

On guided fishing trips at Lake Lewisville with North Texas Catfish Guide Service, we provide all bait, tackle, fishing equipment, ice and ice chests. All you need to do is bring your food and drinks for the day. If you choose to keep the fish you catch with North Texas Catfish Guide Service we will gladly clean your fish at the end of your fishing trip with North Texas Catfish Guide Service and bag the fillets up for you to take home. If you don't want to take home any fish we will catch and release the fish. All catfish over 10 lbs are live released after photographs.

You can call us at 817-522-3804 to schedule your Lake Lewisville Guided Fishing Trip with North Texas Catfish Guide Service or email us at TexasCatfishGuide@gmail.com