Bosserman confirmed the fish’s weight and length ... But catfish aren’t the only species in the Kanawha River system reaching record size these days. In March, roughly three weeks before Carver caught ...

The fish was actually the second one they had caught. Just a few minutes earlier the buddies boated an 18 pound flathead catfish, which was the species ... out of the Kanawha River which is ...

While the fish can now be found in the Ohio and Kanawha ... and rising river flow conditions all occur at the same time, which are disrupted by the construction of dams. The species is also ...