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Catfish processing up 1 percent from last year

This is great news for domestic aquaculture. I wonder how much shipping costs have played a role in these trends?

The lone upside of flooding: Great catfishing

CLARKSVILLE, Mo. - Treasure lies in the dark river, clothed in iridescent greens and yellows, slipping smoothly down the main channel, bumping up into the flooded bottomlands, gliding, prowling, lurking.

Record catfish weighed at Kroger, lives to swim away

A Nashville-area fisherman caught a big one, one too big to weigh on his own scale. He wound up weighing it at a Kroger grocery store before releasing it back into Percy Priest Lake.

The woman who got out of bed to catch a monster

An angling record that had stood for 85 years was broken when a housewife hooked a giant catfish. At 66lb (29.9kg), Bev Street's catch was two pounds heavier than the salmon which had held the record for the heaviest freshwater fish landed by a woman in Britain.

Fishing Water Temperatures

No wonder I was having trouble finding those Largemouth Bass. This article talks about ideal water temps for various kinds of fish. Wish I had read it before.