A 15-year-old girl from New Richmond may have broken an Ohio state record on Sunday, April 7, for the largest blue catfish, with the monster weighing in at a whopping 101.11 pounds. "He was bigger ...

A 15-year-old new Richmond girl may have landed the biggest blue catfish ever caught in Ohio. Jaylynn Parker, a New Richmond High School sophomore, caught the 101.11-pound fish on the Ohio River on ...

When I get together with my brother from Missouri, we often talk about various fishing experiences. I am always quite amazed at the differences between fishing laws, techniques and species in ...

Bob Kidd Lake The 200-acre lake, sometimes called Budd Kidd Lake, was built in 1975 by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. It is named for a former slave, Bob Kidd, who farmed bottomland where the ...

It's possible to eat a steady diet of catfish and fried potatoes and live to tell about it. Such fine dining kept my pal Hog Ears and me nourished many moons ago over a couple summers during our ...

There is nothing new about jug fishing. It’s been around for years. The old bleach bottles and plastic milk cartons have evolved into many different ways to fish jugs. Fact is, jugs are seldom used ...

Here’s a twist on competitive fishing tournaments you don’t hear about every day. It’s built around fish of a different color and a close-knit community of anglers that are truly a different breed. It ...

With fuel costs still too high and rising many of us have decided to go fishing nearer to home. That situation is not all bad though. Now is still a good time to catch white perch, but even better ...

This is a column from Outdoors Columnist Conrad Vollertsen that was published in November, 2013. In Hemingway’s Old Man and The Sea, his fisherman/protagonist uses a handline to bring in the marlin he ...

Arkansas fishing is open all year, but summer is catfish season. Old Whiskers is truly a wonderful fish, be it a channel catfish, flathead catfish or blue 'cat. There are so many ways to catch them, ...