How To Burp a Catfish [Plus The Right Way To Do It]

Practicing catch and release of trophy class catfish is important to protect the sport. It can take decades for a catfish to reach larger trophy sizes and they're not easily replaced.

There's an ever growing number of anglers who solely fish for catch and release purposes, especially for trophy class catfish. Unfortunately years of misunderstanding and misinformation is passed on to them and many are doing harm in their valiant efforts to protect the fish they love to catch.

Many fish suffer from issues when they're caught in deep water. The act of pulling them up rapidly from their deep water lairs combined with basic laws of physics causes their air bladders or swim bladders to blow up and expand. if not handled appropriately they'll die when released and if the air is not released the right way you can easily damage a catfish important internal organs in the process.

Burping a catfish is what the technique is commonly called by anglers but it's simply a process of releasing air from the air bladder that's created from pulling the fish up too quickly.

In this weeks catfishing video Chad Ferguson from Catfish Edge walks you through how to burp a catfish or the process of burping a catfish.

You'll learn:

How to tell when a catfish might need to be burped.
The signs to look for.
How to keep it from happening.
Several ways to burp or release the air from catfish.
Why you shouldn't use a PVC pipe or plastic tube.
How to tell when the air has been released.
More important catfish conservation facts.

To get much more in depth information on catfish conservation and burping catfish check out the information on the Catfish Edge website at:

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Timestamps:
00:40 What causes catfish to "blow up"
01:20 How to keep from harming catfish in deep water
02:09 Do NOT burp a catfish this way
03:06 What to do when landing fish in deeper
03:30 How to burp a catfish the right way