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 ...

Quick Take An angler found himself lucky one January morning, landing an 84-pound trophy catfish in Alabama. Navigating ...

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A Georgia angler has obliterated the Jackson Lake record for blue catfish with the catch of a 71.6-pound behemoth that was almost too large for the net. Walter Dorough, of Hillsboro, was fishing with ...

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 ...

When New Kent fishermen Chris Von Hatten and Christopher Whitmire go out on the Pamunkey River in the early hours of the morning, they hope to catch 3,000 to 4,000 pounds of blue catfish by midday.

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 ...

Invasive species like the blue catfish and snakehead are threatening ecosystems across Maryland’s waters. Chefs say that if we can’t beat ’em, we should eat ’em. These species vary considerably from ...