If you can brave the cold, the winter months are some of the best times of year to deck trophy blue catfish. The biggest catfish I’ve ever seen in person weighed 52 pounds. I didn’t get to reel it in, ...

POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY, Iowa — A Missouri River angler is certainly glad he decided not to cut bait after reeling in the catch of a lifetime. After a 35-minute battle using only a rod and reel, George ...

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 ...