PITTSBURGH ― Imagine hooking into a fish that weighs as much as 100 pounds. Imagine doing it in a Pennsylvania river. You might be able to have that experience in a few years around Pittsburgh. The ...

Q. Why do channel catfish in the Red River grow larger than channel cats in other parts of the country? A. There are a combination of reasons, but the biggest reason, I believe, is that channel ...

Blue catfish grow to large sizes, are tasty to eat and can be easily caught in the majority of Maryland’s rivers — the problem is they’re considered invasive and are a threat to other native fish and ...

Catfish, especially blue catfish, can grow to enormous sizes. The Mississippi state record is 95 pounds and was caught in the Mississippi River near Natchez. Flatheads, another popular species, can ...

Channel catfish is one of the three most commonly stocked fish species in Southern Great Plains (largemouth bass and bluegill are the others). Channel catfish is the primary target fish species in ...

Left pectoral spines were collected from 1,478 channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) taken in western Lake Erie during 1957, 1958, and 1959. Projected images of thin cross sections of the spines were ...

With the Catfish Chasers Tournament Series coming up on its 10th season, organizer David Studebaker thinks the best is yet to come. There's good reason for his optimism. In July, for example, a night ...

At L.D. Amory & Co., in Hampton, amid the usual warehouse bustle and fishy ambiance, bins of blue catfish — swathed in ice — await their fate. In the processing room, a cutter fillets the moist and ...

AUBURN, Ala. — A few miles outside this college town, down a gravel road that runs through rolling woodlands, Rex Dunham has turned a set of muddy ponds into a high-security prison for fish. Electric ...

2001-01-07 04:00:00 PDT Auburn, Ala.-- A few miles outside this college town, down a gravel road that runs through rolling woodlands, Rex Dunham has turned a set of muddy ponds into a high-security ...