W. Whaley’s 58-pound channel cat, caught July 7 1964, in South Carolina’s Santee-Cooper Reservoir, is the all-tackle world ...

An angler reeled in a giant 75-pound blue catfish over Memorial Day weekend during a holiday fishing trip on Lake Texoma.

Muddy Waters knew catfish. And catfishers. “Well, I wish I was a catfish/ Swimmin’ in the deep, blue sea/ I’d have all you good-lookin’ women/ Fishing after me,” the seminal bluesman winked in his ...

A man caught a 71-pound blue catfish, breaking the West Virginia record.

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA)— Florida has a new state record after a blue catfish was caught in the Suwannee River. The 73.6-pound blue catfish is now the official state record, according to the Florida Fish ...

Blue catfish are disappearing from the state’s Santee Cooper lakes, nearly 50 years after wildlife officials brought the hulking sport fish to South Carolina from the Mississippi River basin. Some ...

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When you think about the state of Maryland in general and the Chesapeake Bay in particular, one thing that comes foremost to mind is the blue crab, possibly the tastiest crustacean on the planet. It’s ...