Divided into 33 families, 400 genera, and more than 3,000 species, catfish can be found around the globe. They are found on ...

Although it’s unclear what entity maintains a continent-wide fishing records book, the massive wels catfish is big enough to theoretically set a world record. The current all-tackle youth world record ...

Conejero caught an 8.99-foot-long wels catfish while fishing from a float tube, using a Zeck Belly Stick, a 165-centimeter rod specially designed for belly-boat fishing. A Side-Channel Monster ...

While biologists aren't yet calling the fish pests, they are puzzled by boom. Jan. 20, 2013— -- The enormous wels catfish is rapidly expanding in German waters. The fish can grow up to 10 ...

That fish also came from the River Po, which along with Spain’s Rio Ebro, has given up more monster Wels catfish than anywhere else on Earth. Although we’ll never know for sure, there’s a good chance ...

“When it surfaced for the first time, I really realized that I hooked a monster, adrenaline started ... After a 43-minute battle, Biancardi got the wels catfish to the boat but without help ...

An angler caught a 9-foot-long "monster" catfish in an Italian river after a 40-minute battle. The enormous wels catfish was likely a world-record breaker in length. But Alessandro Biancardi said ...

An angler caught the gigantic wels catfish in the murky waters of the ... I really realized that I hooked a monster," Biancardi wrote in a statement. "I was alone facing the biggest catfish ...

“I knew it was a big fish,” he said. After 30 minutes, he landed the wels catfish and slipped it into a weighing sling to capture its weight of 133-plus pounds before releasing the fish.

I was shocked. It was more like a monster sea creature.' The wels catfish is the largest freshwater fish in Europe and can live up to 30 years in the wild or 60 years in captivity. A typical adult ...

After 40 minutes, the creature finally surfaced and Biancardi realized he had “hooked a monster ... and finally landed the creature—a wels catfish. As if hauling in the animal wasn ...

The “monster” fish fought Reitz for 50 minutes until it was finally hauled to shore, outlets reported. Chigboro Farm & Fisheries, which operates the lake where the Wels catfish was caught ...