In February 2024, junior angler Jaxon Yoakum caught 51.5-pound, 46-inch-long blue catfish at the reservoir, dwarfing the previous record that was set in 2021. Blue catfish “commonly attain ...

This story appears in the April 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. A hungry guide caught a foot-long catfish in a Suriname river in 2010 and began to gut it. But the fish didn’t turn ...

The world has seven continents, but do you know the largest freshwater fish in each? These creatures show the incredible ...

The Mekong giant catfish is the official freshwater heavyweight champion of the world. According to the Guinness Book of Records, a nine-foot-long individual caught in northern Thailand in 2005 ...

Those same species of fish were also stocked as fingerlings, which are 1 to 2 inches long. The advanced fingerlings, 6-12 inches, that were stocked were blue catfish, channel catfish and muskellunge.

The blue catfish weighed in at 100lbs and measured 57.5" in length – that's nearly 5 feet long. Ben Ricks with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission confirmed this blue catfish ...

Cast it out into the lake. Wait. Most anglers would agree this is a fine approach to catching catfish. They’re scent feeders, after all, so even if you’re not in a prime location, let the bait milk ...