By Brad Durick

There’s good news from the Red River of the North where conditions for catfishing are quickly improving!

It appears that the spawn is at its tail end and the region recently got some rain to kick things into gear. Now that we are in post spawn there will be some skinny but very hungry catfish ready to eat.

The best fishing has continued to be in the mid-river holes in or near the main current. Sitting on them a little longer can still payoff and times of 25 to 30 minutes seems to be the best.

Goldeye has been the best bait the past few days, but tournament anglers in last week’s Scheels Boundary Battle say they had good results with frogs.  This year’s frogs should be about three weeks away and that could be a great bait down the stretch as catfish start to key in on that seasonal offering

River conditions continue to be near perfect. As said before, the season is about two weeks ahead of its normal schedule so get ready for some mid-summer fishing a little early this year.

Brad Durick is a Dakota Edge Outdoors contributing writer and a licensed ND fishing guide specializing in trophy channel catfish on the Red River in and around Grand Forks, N.D.

Featured Photo: Post-Spawn Turn On.  Catfish are hungry after expending energy during the past month’s spawn.  Get out there using dead goldeye and frogs and seek out mid-river holes to find them. DEO Photo by Brad Durick.