Register via register-ed.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Yeates says on the event\u2019s registration page she grew up catching trout, bass and sunfish at Grouse Hall Fish and Game in Lehigh County\u2019s Ironton.<\/p>\n \u201cAs I got older, I transitioned into catfishing, starting in the Lehigh River for channel catfish and eventually focusing on flathead catfish in the Delaware River,\u201d her special guest bio states.<\/p>\n Mark Demko, outdoors columnist for lehighvalleylive.com, profiled Yeates last summer<\/a> as she prepared to host her third Catfish Kings contest on the Delaware River. <\/p>\n For 2026, she\u2019s organizing a Delaware River Catfish Tournament on June 6-7 and Sept. 5-6, and a Lake Wallenpaupack Catfish Tournament scheduled for Aug. 1-2.<\/p>\n The tournaments run from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m.<\/p>\n Yeates posts details of her tournaments, and fishing adventures, on Facebook<\/a>, including on her Delaware River Fishing Tournaments<\/a> private group page. <\/p>\n \u201cMy goal is to expand my social media presence around my adventures on the water and to provide events that people in the area look forward to and are excited to attend!\u201d Yeates wrote in her bio ahead of Thursday\u2019s Fish and Boat Commission program.<\/p>\n The commission describes Casting Chats as a guided, discussion-based virtual program designed to help anglers become more knowledgeable in different fishing subjects. Program participants have the opportunity to submit questions for the guest to answer live during the scheduled program.<\/p>\n The next Casting Chats is scheduled for 7-8 p.m. on March 12, focusing on spinner fishing for trout with Frank Nale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anglers looking to learn more about catfishing are invited to a free virtual program Thursday featuring the Lehigh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-105676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Laura](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/DE6ULZE3NJDWBGYRKWCQIJKM4U.jpg\")
Laura Yeates shows off her largest flathead \u2014 a 42 pounder \u2014 she caught in June 2025.Photo courtesy of Dave Au<\/p>\n