Here's a tip for every angler who now travels to Virginia's James River or Kerr Reservoir to find brutish, bottom-feeding blue catfish that can break expensive rods and tear strong line to shreds ...

Workers at Tilghman Island Seafood fillet blue catfish caught from the Potomac River for shipment to a food bank in Salisbury. Bay Journal photo by Dave Harp . ... Blue catfish fillets are good and ...

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 ...

Rocky Rice heads out on the Potomac River as soon as it’s light enough to see. Mostly, it’s not blue crabs he’s after, but blue catfish. With white bellies and long whiskers, the invasive ...

And indeed, harvest numbers are growing year over year. In the Potomac River and Maryland waters, commercial blue catfish harvest jumped from 609,525 pounds in 2013 to 4.2 million pounds in 2023, an ...

Photo courtesy Rose Wills Ron Lewis of Point of Rocks holds the 67.1-pound blue catfish he caught in the Potomac River on March 23. The 51-inch cat is a new state record. courtesyPhoto.

Bridger Willems with a 32 pound blue catfish from the Potomac River. ... take 30 to 50 million pounds of blue catfish from the bay just to maintain the status quo, and that’s a lot of fish fillets.

A trip to Washington, D.C., is reason to breathe deeply in our nation’s history. You also can’t help but notice the Anacostia River, Washington Channel and the might Potomac River fringing D.C ...

I AM NOT an expert on catching catfish; however; north-county fishing buddies Allen Crocker, Ken Stely and Matt Cline would certainly qualify. These three anglers compete in catfish tournaments as ...

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 ...