With 10 witnesses looking on, the wels catfish stretched 9 feet, 4.4 inches long, qualifying it for the International Game Fish Association all-tackle world record for length by 1.6 inches ...

It was the new world record catfish," Biancardi wrote ... angler caught one weighing 297 pounds 9 ounces, USA Today reported. The heaviest catfish ever recorded was caught in Thailand and weighed ...

As the 58-pound world record demonstrates ... The blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus) is the largest catfish species in the United States. The “blue cat’s” native range includes the ...

Whaley with the world-record channel catfish from South Carolina ... These are the smallest of the four native catfish in the United States. Even though they’re called white catfish, the upper bodies ...

Since 2017 the length record has been beaten five times, including twice in the first half of this year. Here’s a look at 10 of the biggest whopper wels catfish ever caught on rod and reel.

Dylan Kampnich (left), of Dexter, caught and released this record setting 37 lb, 9 oz channel catfish in Lake Ontario's Black ...

An enormous 9-foot-long catfish has been caught in Italy, in what could possibly be a new world record. Alessandro Biancardi, a member of the Madcat Italy fishing team, caught the catfish in May ...

It slipped past us quietly, but Arkansas no longer has claim to the world-record walleye ... 1960 to catch some catfish for supper. Instead, he caught a 25-pound, 4-ounce walleye that measured ...

“It was about 11:30 a.m. and Josh was with his cousin on the swim next to us ... record for the largest freshwater fish caught by a youth angler. Although it’s unclear what entity maintains a ...