Elephant Butte Lake: Ray Padilla caught this catfish using carp and shad cut bait on Oct. 18. He had also caught a pair of blue catfish weighing 14 and 16 pounds earlier that morning at Caballo Lake.
Most of my early fishing memories follow a similar script. They involved me sitting patiently on a dock, beach or grassy bank, wondering if my red and white bobber would ever move. And then it did!