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Many of our ancestors, including mine, have been fishing for catfish in our local rivers and streams for over a century.
Dylan Kampnich’s record catch was 13 ounces heavier than the previous record taken in 2022 from the same Black River Bay area of Jefferson County.
The full moon of May signals channel catfish are gathering to spawn around northern Ohio. Jim Horn, left, and his brother, ...
Just in time for summer, the Missouri Department of Conservation is restocking several lakes in the Kansas City area with ...
Getting finned when fishing is never fun, but did you know catfish can release venom? What to know in Mississippi ...
Dylan Kampnich (left), of Dexter, caught and released this record setting 37 lb, 9 oz channel catfish in Lake Ontario's Black ...
A 19-year-old Dexter man has reeled the first record-setting fish of 2025. The New York State Department of Environmental ...
Today we'd like to talk about catching channel catfish using sliding sinkers. There are a few good tricks to using sinker slides that can help when it comes to catching catfish, or any fish. ▶ If ...
We're back out here fishing for channel catfish. We're using cut sucker for bait. The shoreline has risen due to the rain, which is a good thing as it's warmed the water up a bit which will help stir ...
JEFFERSON COUNTY, N.Y. — Dylan Kampnich of Dexter was spending a quiet day fishing with his son on May 3, Black River Bay in ...
As he and Kaden hammered the bullheads, Kampnich thought about a conversation he had earlier that week with state biologists who’d netted a 40-inch, 39-lb channel catfish in the bay while ...
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced the first state record fish of 2025, as Dylan ...