Katmasters’ 2007 Online Catfishing Competition has now ended. I want to thank everyone who entered this year’s competition and a congrats to everyone who submitted fish.

The winning totals was:
1. The Hookers - 100 Points
2. Team 3 - 64 Points
3. Krazy Kats - 31 Points
4. Flathead Fury - 7 Points

Congrats to the winning team, “The Hookers”. The split was:
45% - Chef Jim - $33.30
27.5% - baitfish - $20.35
27.5% - pokerkat - $20.35

Big Fish Winner:
Chef Jim - 25lb 12oz Blue Catfish - $30

Oddball Fish Winner:
Possum - 27lb Carp - 9′ MH action Whuppin’ Stick - Donated by Pokerkat

Winning Members - Please PM me your address so I can send you your winnings.

Announcing Katmasters’ newest sponsor!

BIT O SENSE - Planer Bobbers
Planer Bobbers will change the way you fish forever. They will also help catch the fish you have been missing!

Here is what Danny, the owner of BIT O SENSE, as to say about his new Planer Bobbers

People wonder about the name Bit-O-Sense -(little piece of knowledge)-bits of sense-It covers all my inventions- I still hope to get some more fishing in before its to late in the year- I would like to talk about spider rigging with planer bobbers -they really get the baits spread out and at what ever depth you set- It will hold your bait at any depth 1 to 200 feet -you can even drag the bottom with a float and weight to keep your bait a foot or two off the bottom if you want -I cant think of a better way to present live or dead bait to big fish at any depth- with lots or rods out and no tangles and lots of fun

Check out the sponsor section on Katmasters.com or visit there website for more details.
Forum Section
BIT O SENSE Website

A new section has been added to the Katmasters Photo Album. After see the large amount of hunting and gun photos uploaded by members to the Misc. Photo section, it was clear a new section was needed. Members now have there own section to show off there trophy hunting photos or even to show there gun collection.

Here are some recent photos added to the Hunting Section:

Click Here to view the new section.

Katmasters started a COTM Team earlier this year to help out with the Pound Club program and our Catch Of The Month program. During the summer, time sorta took over the team dissolved. After much planning, the Team is back again and here to stay.

This team plays an important role in these 2 programs. Members will be awarded there pound club icons in a much more timely manner. This team also handles the COTM, in which winners will also be chosen quicker then before.

A big congrats and thank you to “PokerKat” and “mountiancat” for volunteering to handle the responsibilities of these two Katmasters’ programs.

Visiting the forum, you will find some new forum sub-sections have been added. Sections added was “Other Catfishing Methods” and “Other Fish Discussion”. The main reason for adding these new sections, was for “Organization”. When you have a large amount of posts and threads on a forum, it is hard to find what you are looking for. The addition of these sub-sections will help members that are searching for information on these titles, find what they are looking for a lot faster.

Sub-Sections Added:

Other Catfishing Methods
-Noodling
-Trot Lines
-Limb Lines
-Jug Lines

Other Fish Discussion
-Bass
-Carp
-Gar
-Musky
-Northern Pike
-Pan Fish
-Steelhead
-Sturgeon
-Trout
-Walleye
-Salt Water Fish
-All Other Fish
-Crabbing
-Turtles
-Aquarium Fish

We are going to have a chat night to talk about the Katmasters 2007 Online Catfishing Competition. The chat will be held on this Thursday night at 8pm EST. There will be a room titled “Tournament” in the chat room, you can enter the room and join in on the chat by clicking on that room.

We are going to answer questions you all may have with how things are set up and also hear your opinions on this competition.

If you have questions about our competition or want to share your opinion, enter the chat and lets hear it. Hope to see a bunch of you there. I look forward to chatting with you all, answering your questions and hearing your input.

The main chat room will still be open for those of you that want to chat about off-topic stuff.

Read forum post about this.

Katmasters has added 2 Moderators on it’s forum. We would like to welcome Jonathon (SultanOfSlime) from GA and Tom (TomKat) from IA, as it’s newest moderators.

These guys have been with Katmasters for a while and will do a great job helping to keep Katmasters the best place on the Internet to talk Catfishing.

Read the forum thread for this annoucement

Katmasters has released tutorials on the most common questions asked on our forums. On our tutorials page, you will find flash tutorials on how to upload images to your posts, how to resize images (on different photo programs) and others. More tutorials are on the way to help members with there questions and problems dealing with our forums.

Tutorials done in this format dealing with catfishing issues may also be posted in the future.

Katmasters Forum Tutorials

Announcing Chef Jim’s Catfishin’ Penn Reels website.

Chef Jim is becoming well known for his great work with Penn Reels. The love he has for his Penn Reels really shows in his work. Reading through Jim’s Sponsor Section on Katmasters, you can see that his customers back up this claim. Chef Jim doesn’t just sell reels, he also offers a full service job for Penn Reels that is sure to please. If you are looking for parts for Penn Reels, he sells them too.

When it comes to Penn Reels, Chef Jim is the man.

Introducing the new Katmasters Top 100 Catfishing Websites. Websites are ranked by Unique Page Views, with the top 100 displaying there special rank number mini banner on their website. Here are a few things that makes the Katmasters Top Catfishing Websites different then other Top Lists:

Banners - When you register your site, you tell us the link to your banner. The max size a banner is 468 x 60. When a visitor clicks on your Stats button on our website, your banner will be displayed along with a link to your site, your site description, site reviews and your stats. The top 2 websites will also be able to display there banner with there listing on the ranking page.

Reviews - Visitors are able to review your website. Not only review your site, but give it a rating form 1-5. This info will be displayed on your Stats Page and your rating will display on our Ranking page if you are one of the top 2 sites.

Movement - You are able to see a websites movement in rank. Looking at a listing, you will quickly be able to see if a web site’s rank on our list as went up, down, or stayed the same.

Categories - With using categories, visitors can filter listings by choosing the type of catfishing websites they want to see. For example, If a visitor selects “Tours and Teams”, they will see a ranking of just the Tournaments and Teams web sites.

A special thanks goes out to Greg Cummings (Nightfisher) for making the header image and the ranking buttons. Thanks Greg for all your help in getting this thing rolling.

If you have a catfishing website, click on the link below and get your site submitted.
Katmasters Top 100 Catfishing Websites