Catfish in the Potomac can be the size of a human child ... A really big fish is a “freaking tank” or a “river monster.” Reeling one in is a “free roller coaster” that results in ...

Stanley "Sebby" Brock III poses with an enormous catfish found in the Potomac River near the Chain Bridge (courtesy of Stan Brock) A 20-year-old Arlington man out fishing near the Chain Bridge ...

POINT OF ROCKS -- Easter morning, Ron Lewis and his friend, Jimmy Griffith, launched Lewis's boat on the tidal Potomac River about 7:30. Griffith caught the first fish, a 14-pound catfish.

The rod to his left bucked twice and then slowly began bending toward the river without stopping. “We’re on!” We’d been soaking baits for less than 15 minutes. Blue catfish are invasive in the Potomac ...

This photo was taken in front of Mount Vernon on the Potomac River. Photo by Jay Fleming “People have this connotation that catfish are muddy bottom feeders. I think that comes from eating farm-raised ...

Blue catfish showed surprising tolerance to brackish ... Without waves to fight, we adroitly cruise over flat water on the gently flowing Potomac River. Mid-transit, Cubbage reaches over the ...

Crocker and Stely took first place in the Maryland Chapter of the Catfish Nation Tournament held Aug. 22. The tournament took place on the Potomac River at the Fort Washington Marina in Prince ...

I SAW HIM, JIMMY!” was the loud exclamation from P.J. Korn, as he held fast to the heavy spinning rod that was connected to a big, Potomac River blue catfish. We were fishing down river from the ...

Bridger Willems with a 32 pound blue catfish from the Potomac River. (Submitted photo) During the same time some 18,000 pounds of invasive fish were removed from the lift this year and donated to ...

The invasive species in question is the blue catfish, a species so large it has become known as the "River Monster of the Potomac " and other major Chesapeake Bay tributaries. The catfish's diet ...

Catfish in the Potomac can be the size of ... In a secret spot on the banks of the Potomac River, just past Georgetown, a fishing rod has begun to twitch. Then it arcs with the weight of what ...