Pay lakes are privately owned stocked fishing ponds where anglers pay a fee, either per day or per fish, to catch species like catfish, carp, or trout.

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department in spring 2023 trapped 4,180 channel catfish from the Missouri River System and stocked them in Sweetbriar Dam. Fordville Dam is a control site. Tyler Bennett ...

BISMARCK – Channel catfish are arguably the most underappreciated gamefish species in North Dakota once you get west of the Red River Valley, and the Game and Fish Department is trying to do something ...

WEST TAWAKONI - Larry Spillers' bumped and banged his 22-foot center console rig across the shallow flat, then glided to a stop in the middle of a huge stump field at the upper end of Lake Tawakoni. I ...

Lehigh Valley angler Laura Yeates is the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission's guest for a Thursday, Feb. 5 edition of ...

We are fishing for bullhead and channel catfish from shore. We're using cut sucker on T-Turn Bait Rigs. It's early April, though it's been a long winter, so the water is very very cold making the ...

The latter days of November can be special times for fishermen on the Santee Cooper lakes. Catfish fishing can be great. And the striped bass are there to stretch your line. But why choose one or the ...

A woman in Idaho landed a flathead catfish that was a catch-and-release state record previously held by her husband, but she had initially thought about not submitting it for record consideration.