Today we go over one of the best ways to catch channel catfish using cut bait. One key part is the setup - the pre-tied ...

Join us as we head out for an exciting day of channel catfish fishing using bait pockets filled with a mixture of cut bait and livers. Antonio, the Boatless Angler, and I battle the cold front and ...

An angler never knows what kind of fish is tugging at the end of the line when a nightcrawler is on the hook. Nearly every fish that swims eats nightcrawlers. You never know what you'll catch. There ...

Hooks for catfish have a two-part assignment: To hold onto the bait and then hold onto the catfish once it bites. But it isn’t as simple as it sounds. Every hook isn’t built the same, and each style ...

An experiment earlier this summer using hoop nets instead of trap nets to sample channel catfish along the U.S. portion of the Red River yielded results that exceeded even the most optimistic ...

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources has stocked 70,000 channel catfish in 131 locations and 57,000 fall fingerling walleye in 11 locations since mid-October to expand fishing opportunities thr ...

Jefferson County, NY (WRGB) — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced the first state record fish of 2025, as Dylan Kampnich of Dexter caught a massive 37-pound ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, N.Y. — Dylan Kampnich of Dexter was spending a quiet day fishing with his son on May 3, Black River Bay in Jefferson County. Then he reeled in a 37-pound, 9-ounce channel catfish in ...