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 ...

JAMES RIVER - Splashed and speckled in mud, Dave Lucchesi jumped into action. He quickly stepped over the slow-moving James River, from one boat into another, to take control of the wheel as flathead ...

ST. PAUL — Catfish are hard fighters and catching them can be an adventure for anglers, some of whom spend evening and night hours plying major rivers with sturdy rods and reels loaded with heavy line ...

BEAVER LAKE -- Arkansas Game and Fish Commission biologists completed a study of the Beaver Lake channel catfish population to determine the ratio of stocked channel catfish to catfish that spawn ...

Trinity and Angelina County Game Wardens, along with a regional chaplain, patrolling the Neches River recently while checking for hoop nets found one containing about 22 catfish, according to a Texas ...

Hundreds of turtles and fingerling-sized catfish were rescued at a South Texas Lake earlier this week. Texas Game Wardens discovered the animals trapped inside several illegal hoop nets. Illegal ...