Fish Big or Go Home · Hand-crafted for the catfish angler
MondoCat — fish big or go home
Blue catfish chasing a worm

About Us

The MondoCat Story

Bryan Mellage holding a monster catfish

Bryan Mellage’s lifelong pursuit of catfishing started as a young child sitting beside his Grandpa along the creek bank. All of Bryan’s children grew up holding onto fishing poles, catching catfish, but Mariah is the one that caught the fever of chasing the big one.

This love of fishing and looking for ever bigger catfish led Bryan and Mariah to think about helping others to do the same – their company MondoCat was the result.

As MondoCat develops and expands, the company’s ongoing mission will continue to be to produce high quality tackle dedicated to helping others with the riggings and improved techniques to catch more catfish, bigger catfish, and to grow the sport and the family of people who want to go – CATFISHING!

The expansion of MondoCat has not changed the essence and driving force of the company. MondoCat builds quality products designed to handle the load and the rigors of catfishing, especially catching big catfish, and strives to sell and produce products made in the U.S.A.

From the beginning, building the ultimate catfish poles, MondoCat has grown to include many of the essential tools and products every catfisherman needs to bring monster fish to the net.

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The people behind the rods

The MondoCat Team

Bryan Mellage

Bryan Mellage

Mariah Bantz

Mariah Bantz

Cody Neer

Cody Neer

“I bought my first MondoCat rod in 2016 at a trade show in Iowa, only thing I've used since!”

— Matt B

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