HICKORY, N.C. ( WBTV /Gray News) - A father and son reeled in a 47-pound catfish while fishing on Friday. Liam and Bradley Watts caught the flathead catfish around 8 p.m. on Lake Hickory. Photos ...

The biggest fish in the river, the biggest in Pennsylvania — the kind of thing that almost doesn't seem like it should even be here. The flathead catfish phenomenon continues to grow.

A 70-pound flathead was caught a few weeks ago near Rapid City, a true monster fish. I have been fortunate in my Mississippi River fisheries work to have handled several catfish in that range.

She bought him a gift certificate to go flathead catfish ... Mississippi River near Red Wing during the trip out, the solitude of night fishing in the middle of nowhere and a chance to land our ...

Flathead catfish — native to the Mississippi River basin — were first ... and how their presence is affecting native aquatic species in the river. The findings, which the team said state fisheries ...

Flathead catfish — native to the Mississippi River basin — were first ... and how their presence is affecting native aquatic species in the river. The findings, which the team said state fisheries ...

Flathead catfish -- native to the Mississippi River basin ... is affecting native aquatic species in the river. The findings, which the team said state fisheries managers can use to better ...

The habitat for that flathead catfish was not just the Missouri River in southeast Nebraska. It was an entire Missouri/Mississippi river drainage. Activities on any stretch of that river basin can ...

Despite catfish ... of the state along the Red River, accounted for $22.8 million of those sales. While Texas ranks in the top four states for catfish production, it trails far behind Mississippi ...

Bradly Courtright holds up the massive flathead; weighing the catfish on a scale. Photos courtesy Bradly Courtright The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation announced Tuesday that one of the ...

California is the third largest state in ... record blue catfish tipped the scales at 143 pounds! Blue catfish are native to the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, and Rio Grande river basins, but ...