Destinations

An adult shares a quiet moment on the water while helping a young angler learn the basics—exactly the kind of experience Maryland’s youth fishing rodeos are designed to inspire. (Keith...

Hundreds of visitors fill the Fish Tent at the World’s Biggest Fish Fry in Paris, Tennessee. (Photo by Monte Starks)   Catfish Culture in Tennessee: Home of the World’s Biggest...

The Gregory family clearly had a ton of fun fishing the Potomac River in the shadow of our nation’s capital. (Photo by Capt. Owen Koch) Guide of the Month: Capt....

Cold air, hot bite. Ice-out channel cats move shallow and start feeding fast in early spring.   Ice-Out Cats Are Biting! Source: Iowa Dept. of Natural Resources The Iowa Dept....

Guide Owen Koch and a customer celebrate catching a big blue catfish in the Potomac River. (Photo courtesy of Capital Blues Fishing Charters)   Chesapeake Blues by Brent Frazee Too...

An extra day off and deep winter water produced this Presidents’ Day stringer of channel catfish for CatfishNOW editor Keith Sutton. Photo by Alex Hinson   Presidents’ Day Catfish By...

Brittany and Bryan Sapp routinely travel from Pennsylvania to catfish with Scenic City Fishing Charters. On one of those trips, they targeted flatheads on the Guntersville headwaters with great success....

Morgan City Oilfield Fishing Rodeo angler Jacob Aucoin (right) shows off two blue catfish during the 2025 event in Morgan City. His fish on the left weighed 37.78 pounds, good...

Excellent catfishing is available year-round on lakes Marion and Moultrie, but tactics change seasonally.   The Santee Cooper Lakes Story and photos by Terry Madewell Catfishermen are optimists in the...

 Matt ‘Catmatt” Jones specializes in seeking trophy flatheads on Illinois’ Rock River. He has retired from full-time guiding, but continues part time and is one of those rare guides who...