When the Doobie Brothers sang about the catfish jumping in their hit song “Black Water” they weren’t lying. For the past two ...

This heavy dilution helps keep the level of contaminants in the Mississippi River “very low and generally safe,” he said. Catfish who swim in the river, therefore, are not swimming in water ...

They are most active at night and love to eat another Mississippi River fish, the gizzard shad. These catfish have the same ...

It seems improbable, but another state record has been broken with a 104-pound blue catfish taken from the Mississippi River. "I kept telling myself, 'That's a trophy,' but I didn't realize it ...

She bought him a gift certificate to go flathead catfish fishing. Can’t get much different then that! Scott was holding a ticket to enjoy the beauty of the Mississippi River near Red Wing during ...

While fishing on the Mississippi River near Natchez on Tuesday, he hauled up a 104-pound blue catfish on a trotline, setting a new state trophy record. According to the Mississippi Department of ...

There was an account that a catfish, which weighed over 160 pounds, was caught from the Mississippi River and sent on a train back to Washington D.C. for Abraham Lincoln to admire. Because ice was ...

A southeast Missouri man reeled in a very large fish from the Mississippi River on Friday ... on a nine foot pole when he hooked the massive catfish. He and his friend Randy Lincoln couldn ...

Christopher Halley caught a 104-pound blue catfish Tuesday using a trotline on the Mississippi River near Natchez. The fish is larger than the trophy record blue catfish of 101 pounds caught by ...