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 ...

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 ...

Ballard put on frozen gloves and began hand-lining the big cat to the surface ... Finally, an 8-foot-plus wels catfish surfaced, and Ballard managed to get a hand on its jaw. “I was physically and ...

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 ...

“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.

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 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 ...

Biancardi grips the bottom lip of his enormous wels catfish with both hands ... He said it was a fairly normal day on the river until the big cat took his swimbait. “I calmly managed to fight ...

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 ...

A pro fisherman in Italy reeled in a massive wels catfish, which could set a new world record for length. Photo provided by MADCAT. An Italian angler could soon be a new world record holder after ...