Fishing for catfish during the wintertime is much tougher the further north you go. In northeastern states, their metabolism will shut down almost entirely during the winter months as they rely on fat ...

Crappies, catfish, and carp are the most common ... hook and then utilize it in the same manner they would when fishing a natural bait. Most often, this means using prepared baits on bottom ...

Catfish often swim in schools, so where there is one, there are often more, leading to fun, fast-paced fishing ... tuna to chum the waters and as bait, among other things. Continue reading ...

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Bryan "Catfish" Konczak caught a big flathead catfish at Braidwood Lake last week to earn Fish of the Week honors. Surveys by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources show that flatheads are ...

One of the great things about Texas? There's no shortage of great fishing spots. Whether its a river, one of our beautiful ...

That two of the last three angling records established in Ohio belong to a woman and a girl probably merits interest.

Channel catfish are prone to feed heavily during early spring, cleaning up small fish that died over the winter.

Nothing says fishing like a night spent soaking bait for channel catfish — and there's a damn good lake for it in Aurora. The 880-acre reservoir at Cherry Creek State Park offers anglers a ...