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 ...

Anglers in the Pittsburgh area may be catching 50-to 60-pound blue catfish several years from now as part of an ongoing reintroduction effort of this native species of fish. The Pennsylvania Fish and ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says the behemoth fish was reeled in by George Thompson along the Missouri River in ...

The fish, which weighed 105 pounds and was 60 inches long, was reeled in by Nebraska resident George Thompson.

Catfish are a popular catch-and-release fish for extreme anglers. They are easy to catch, and their large size makes them exciting to land. Catfish often swim in schools, so where there is one, there ...

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 ...

A man fishing on the Missouri River caught an 86.8-pound blue catfish, officials say. Missouri Department of Conservation An angler caught a fish of a lifetime in Missouri, then released it so other ...

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 ...

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 ...