Outdoor Guide: Catman of the Cumberland

Week of November 23, 2009

"It's a brutally cold February afternoon, the kind of day that makes you wish you were inside a nice, toasty office cubicle instead of hunkered down in an anchored boat on Tennessee's Cumberland River. The air temp hasn't bumped past 28 all day, its spitting snow and the rain-swollen river is 39 degrees and the color of old brake fluid. Perfect conditions for catching a big blue catfish, my guide, Jim Moyer, keeps telling me. So I pull the drawstring of my hooded sweatshirt tighter, empty the dregs from my coffee Thermos into my cup and wait for something to happen." Read more about this author's adventure with Jim Moyer, Tennessee's living legend among die-hard cat fishermen.