Catfish rods must be built to handle a list of tough tasks. They are flexible, lobbing casts that ensure large pieces of live or cut catfish bait remain rigged. They are sensitive, detecting the ...

A fisherman from Oxfordshire, England, reeled in a 102-pound catfish from the Rock Lakes in central France earlier this week, but he claims he was only expecting to catch a few carp. "I knew it was a ...

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That’s how we do it in North Carolina: On Aug. 5, a Wilkes County man landed a state-record catfish on his granddaughter’s Barbie Doll fishing pole. The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission ...

A man in Wayne County, West Virginia, caught a state record channel catfish in the pond on his father's farm in South Charleston using an unexpected rod. John Tyler Rutherford reeled in a ...

The record-breaking drum struck so ferociously that it nearly pulled the rod from its holder. John Gibson, who was fishing in a catfish tournament on the Kanawha River on April 24, told Metro News ...