Wels catfish, the type most commonly found in Europe ... wider than me and when we put it on the scales it was bang on 150 pounds. 'It was so big it broke everything that it touched.

Alessandro Biancardi with the pending world-record Wels catfish. Courtesy of MADCAT In 2023 ... Richard Nicholas Anderson caught the big blue cat in 2011 while fishing Kerr Lake in Virginia. We couldn ...

Catfish are not typically the first species that come to mind when discussing lure fishing, but a few anglers have proven ...