Doug Elliott (Tex) grew up in a family that loved to fish.  He remembers many times as a child going fishing with his Dad and Uncle.  Fishing has been in his blood from that time on.  Since moving to Plano in 2000, he has focused his attention on catfish, spending countless hours chasing and catching the big ones on Lake Lavon.  He loves to teach techniques and enjoys watching someone else catch that “fish of a lifetime” as much as he enjoys catching them himself.

Doug also likes to better his overall catfish techniques by entering catfish tournaments around neighboring states.  Doug fished a few of the ACATS (American Catfish Angler Tournament Series) tournaments in 2003.  He and his partner, Steven Garcia, won 2^nd place at the Lavon tournament.  Fishing all the ACATS events in 2004, he and his partner (Don Dodd), finished in 1st place at the Lake Lavon tournament weighing in ten catfish totaling 98.54 pounds anchored with a 53.33 lb. blue catfish (can you imagine trying to reel in a 53 lb. fish?).  The second place finisher in that tournament finished with a distant 29.01 lbs.  They also placed 2^nd in the Eufaula tournament and ended the year finishing 4^th overall in the 2004 point standings.

To book your trip with Tex, contact him at tex@northtexasguideservice.com or

call him at 817.988.5468

                      Tex (holding cat) and his partner Don                       42 lb. blue cat                               mess of eatin' size cats

                        with their winning 53 lb. catfish at

                     2004 Lake Lavon ACATS tournament

                         (caught, weighed and released)

RECENT TRIPS WITH TEX:  May 2005

Doug Elliott and Don Dodd placed 2nd at the Richland Chambers ACATS

tournament on May 14.with 10 catfish weighing 59.01 lbs.

              That's 60 cats down there                      Some bigger cats                        No wind and a released cat            The joy of cleaning the fish

                             Another released cat                     Nice mess of cats to clean           Nothing like reeling in a big catfish

PREVIOUS TRIPS WITH TEX:

February 20, 2005:  Fishing up shallow
 

February 13, 2005:  Drifting those deep flats

February 2, 2005:  Fishing with Al Linder and Jerry Hancock

January 30, 2005:  Drifting the flats.
 

March 13, 2005:  We loaded the boat with a bunch of eatin' size catfish as well as some big fish.  We released all the big ones.

March 12, 2005:  Mike and Sue joined me for some great shallow water fishing.  It was a bit windy, but they held their own and caught some big fish!

                
 Don't be fooled by the 31lb fish
                on her lap!
 

March 6, 2005: Not has hot and heavy as I would have liked, but we still boated and released an 11 lb fish.  It was a bit foggy, which is why the picture looks blurry.
 

March 5, 2005:  Took Dale and Anthony fishing today.  Still not hot and heavy for the big fish yet...but getting close.  Still a good mess of eating size catfish. 

March 4, 2005:  I took a break from guiding and headed up to Lake Tawakoni for the ACATS tournament.  Don and I landed 4th place.

April 2005

                                           Mess of cats to clean                                           9lb Blue                                    Still cleaning the mess of cats

               16lb Blue                                             Bunch of cats                                       9lb Blue                                    Tex with a 21lb Blue