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 ...
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 ...
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A Missouri man had himself a whale of a catch after landing a "monster" catfish in the Missouri River. The Missouri Department of Conservation shared an image Tuesday of fisherman Wally Klein holding ...
The blue catfish was never supposed to be in the Chesapeake Bay. In the 1970s, the species was introduced into the James River in Virginia as a trophy fish. From there, it quietly slipped into the Bay ...
Although the guests at last week’s blue catfish dinner didn’t eat two tons of the invasive species, they still did their part by ingesting the fish four different ways, along with fries, macaroni and ...
WASHINGTON, Mo. - A Midwest angler on the banks of the Missouri River near St. Louis recently experienced the catch of a lifetime. Wally Klein landed a colossal 86.8-pound blue catfish that truly put ...
The biggest catfish I’ve ever seen in person weighed 52 pounds. I didn’t get to reel it in, sadly, but was awestruck nonetheless by this blue cat. A friend and I were fishing with a charter captain on ...
Lena Sawyers, a biologist at the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, holds a flathead catfish captured during an electrofishing demonstration on the Potomac River on Sept. 10. (Photo by ...