A North Carolina-based fishing rod company announced what may be a pending state-record blue catfish earlier this month. The details are thin, but Catch the Fever reports the fish, caught in Kansas, ...

March 24 was a fishing day that Saul and Kali Perez had been planning for several years. The Wentzville family heard about huge blue catfish being caught from the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers near ...

The new state record, caught on the Missouri River, weighs in at 121.1 pounds and measures in at 59.75 inches. The previous ...

This spring Daniel Mayer of Agency, Missouri, caught a 121.1-pound blue catfish while fishing the Kansas side of the Missouri River. Although the news hit social media in May, the Kansas Department of ...

For decades at Lake Tawakoni, the “trophy” blue catfish season began with the first cooling north winds in October and ended with the spring warm up. Fall and winter was the designated time to go ...

In many of America's freshwater regions blue catfish are held in pretty high esteem. They grow fast, are plenty strong when hooked, and top out at triple-digit weights. They're not hard to catch, and ...

Kimberly Feltner and her husband, Shawn, braved the wind and rain on Sept. 28 to fish the Ohio River with their friend and local guide, Chris Souders. It was the day after Hurricane Helene struck the ...

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In Japanese sci-fi movies, the monster created by pollution is Godzilla. On "The Simpsons," it's a three-eyed fish named Blinky. In Virginia, it's a gape-mouthed predator called the blue catfish — and ...

A fish that wasn't supposed to be swimming in W. Kerr Scott Reservoir swallowed a bait intended for another fish. The result was one happy fisherman. Last Saturday night, Matt Wayne of Wilkesboro cast ...