look small. The species is the largest freshwater ... most notably the River Po. **Related: Giant Wels Catfish Beach Themselves While Hunting Pigeons The wels also inspires a nearly cultlike ...

They also eat waterfowl, and there are tales of the massive cats attacking dogs and even small children. READ NEXT: The Biggest Record Catfish from Around the World Wels are prized sport fish. Anglers ...

Wels catfish, which are native to Eastern Europe, can grow up to 10 feet long. On a small island below, in the Tarn River, pigeons wandered about, oblivious to the group of wels catfish moving ...

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 ...

A pro fisherman in Italy reeled in a massive wels catfish, which could set a new world ... which runs across northern Italy — in a small fishing boat and started probing the muddy waters with ...

An angler caught the gigantic wels catfish in the murky waters of the River Po, in Italy, where the previous world record for the largest catfish was set just 2 months ago. When you purchase ...

Recently, a pending world record for the longest catfish was caught in Italy’s River Po. This fish measured 9 feet, 4 inches long (285 cm)! It is called a Wels catfish and they can be found ...