The beautiful spring weather had given me and my buddy Joe an itch to go fishing, so that’s exactly what we did. We loaded Joe’s johnboat, pulled it to the Arkansas River and launched just after the ...

When a big catfish pulls a jug under, the call rings out. The fish isn’t as big as Moby Dick, of course, but this is as close to whaling as you can get in a river. My fishing buddy paddled hurriedly, ...

• Lash them together with twine or monofilament. • Affix about 6 feet of heavy monofilament line to the cluster, with a large hook and lead sinker at the bottom. • Bait hook with something smelly, ...

Editor's note: This article is the second in a series detailing record sized catfish David Rauls recently caught. Leaving his job responsibilities as a network and video teleconference administrator ...

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create an effective way to alert a jug fisher when a fish had been caught and its location," said an inventor, from Coker, Ala., "so I invented ...