Related: Giant Wels Catfish Beach Themselves While Hunting Pigeons The wels also inspires a nearly cultlike following of anglers obsessed with catching and releasing a specimen that’s ...

The wels catfish is Europe’s largest freshwater fish with an average size on the Ebro River about 100 pounds. The Wall Street Journal once referred to these behemoths as “a Leviathan worthy of ...

An angler caught the gigantic wels catfish in the murky waters of the River Po, in Italy, where the previous world record for the largest catfish was set just 2 months ago. When you purchase ...

Alessandro Biancardi with the pending world-record Wels catfish. Although it's hard to say for sure, this is likely the biggest fish ever caught in freshwater. Photo courtesy of MADCAT / Instagram ...

A pro fisherman in Italy reeled in a massive wels catfish, which could set a new world record for length. Photo provided by MADCAT. An Italian angler could soon be a new world record holder after ...

A file photo of a catfish swimming underwater. Wels Catfish can grow to huge sizes. A file photo of a catfish swimming underwater. Wels Catfish can grow to huge sizes. abadonian/Getty Do you have ...

An angler caught a 9-foot-long "monster" catfish in an Italian river after a 40-minute battle. The enormous wels catfish was likely a world-record breaker in length. But Alessandro Biancardi said ...

A fisherman has reeled in a monster 19 stone catfish, which could be the biggest in the world caught with a rod and reel. Dino Ferrari hooked the whopper wels catfish, which was 2.67m in length ...

Joshua Davenport poses with the 152-pound wels catfish in ... halibut pellets when the catfish bit. It took Davenport 25 minutes and some help from the guides at Ebro Mad Cats to get the fish to the ...

British angler Bernie Campbell just fulfilled a seven-year goal of catching a rare albino wels catfish, but little did he dream that when he finally hooked one and landed it, he would also land a ...