Scott reeled in the 32-inch catfish on May 16 while fishing the Snake River in Canyon County. His fish beat the previous 31-inch record set in 2018 by James Stackhouse.

A Newport man has landed a new state record for a flathead catfish, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources ...

A man recently hauled in the catch of a lifetime from the Missouri River, a “monster” 86-pound blue catfish near Washington, ...

A Michigan fisherman pulled in a record-setting flathead catfish in late June, shattering the state's previous record-setting ...

Codie Carlson, an angler from Newport, Michigan, caught a new state-record-sized flathead catfish weighing in at 64.46 pounds ...

Flathead catfish are native to the whole of Texas, and endemic to most of the Mississippi and Ohio river drainages. They are not native to the western third of the United States or the eastern U.S ...

The flathead catfish phenomenon continues to grow. It’s common to catch them from 20 to 30 pounds each, though they easily get twice that size in the lower third of the river.

PAUL — Catfish are hard fighters and catching them can be an adventure for anglers, some of whom spend evening and night hours plying major rivers with sturdy rods and reels loaded with heavy line.

Anglers in Georgia have been urged to catch flathead catfish, ... removing 64,000 flathead catfish from the river between 2007 and 2016. Wildlife biologists believe predatory flatheads, ...

"If (flathead catfish) can fit it in their mouth, they're going to eat it," a state biologist said. ... removing 64,000 flathead catfish from the river between 2007 and 2016.

“Big Kankakee River flathead my brother Colin got today,” Kyle Lund messaged Monday afternoon. Colin Lund used cut bait in a creek mouth to catch his 33-pound, 9-pound flathead catfish.

WRD staff conducts annual catfish sampling in coastal rivers to monitor native species and detect any potential non-native species invasions. In December 2021, a single flathead was caught by a ...