The Ohio record for a blue catfish is currently 96 pounds held by Chris Rolph, of Williamsburg, who caught the 54 1/2-inch fish in the Ohio River on June 11, 2009. The world record is a 143-pound ...

Lynott helped examine the huge catfish which crushed the previously ... “A fellah called me out of the blue and said he had the world record flathead in a freezer and asked if I wanted it ...

(Blue marlin are a close second ... Alessandro Biancardi with the pending world-record Wels catfish. Courtesy of MADCAT In 2023, Italian angler Alessandro Biancardi caught and released a massive Wels ...

North Carolina wildlife records show AWOL’s blue catfish fell a few pounds short of being the largest of its species caught in the state, however. That title went to a whopping 127-pound fish ...

Ben Ricks with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission confirmed this blue catfish caught is the largest seen in the Cape Fear River. The state record is 127 pounds caught out of the ...