Aside from their distinctive whiskers, blue catfish have a few other peculiar qualities. They don’t have scales; ... Potomac River catfish are no match for Ernie the Hog Snatcher.

A hot and still afternoon on the Potomac River yielded equally hot fishing. Blue catfish, an introduced invasive fish, were easily caught with fishing guide Anthony Cubbage and Atomic Fishing ...

Bridger Willems with a 32 pound blue catfish from the Potomac River. (Submitted photo) During the same time some 18,000 pounds of invasive fish were removed from the lift this year and donated to ...

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 ...

Maryland DNR biologists Branson Williams and Tim Groves haul in an enormous blue catfish caught with electrofishing gear in the Potomac River in 2014. A commercial electrofishing operation plies ...

The invasive species in question is the blue catfish, a species so large it has become known as the "River Monster of the Potomac " and other major Chesapeake Bay tributaries. The catfish's diet ...

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 ...

With blue catfish – the largest catfish species in North America – beginning to show up in the Ohio River in southwestern Pennsylvania after an absence of about a century, the Pennsylvania ...

Native to America's mid-western river systems, the blue catfish was first introduced to the Chesapeake watershed in Virginia's James river during the 1970's as a sport fish. But in Maryland waters ...

WBAL NewsRadio 1090/FM 101.5 - Gov. Wes Moore has more to worry about than just crime, education and the economy. There's also catfish.

FORT WASHINGTON, Md. — Seafood lovers enjoying the traditional summer Chesapeake crab feast have suffered remarkable sticker shock this year with prices as high as $90 to $100 a dozen for crabs ...