The Pee Dee River flows through both Carolinas and offers anglers the chance to do battle with trophy catfish of all species.
A rod on the port side of Robbie Burr’s boat dipped toward the water, and line began to peel slowly off the reel. It stopped, then started out again. Natalie, Burr’s 14-year-old daughter, moved toward the rod, lifted it from the rod-holder and began to reel. Battle on!
Natalie Burr and her father was fishing for catfish on the Pee Dee River, just downstream from Blewitt Falls Dam in North Carolina. Her biggest cat, a blue, weighed 72 pounds. She may be young, but she’s no novice.
The Pee Dee River in the first miles downstream from the dam is rather swift — not whitewater, but moving right along — rocky and shallow. Robbie Burr fishes out of a big jonboat equipped with a jet-drive engine that allows him to move around the shallow river. Click here to read more on Land of the Big Cats
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