A family vacation to Spain turned into an international headline when 11-year-old Joshua Davenport caught a 152-pound wels catfish on the River Ebro during the last week of October. He and his parents ...

Alessandro Biancardi poses with his massive catch, a 9.4-foot-long wels catfish, on the banks of the River Po. Whiskered, marble-skinned giants lurk in the murky waters of Italy's longest river. These ...

Anglers know Spain’s River Ebro as the “catfish capital of Europe” because of its giant wels catfish. English fisherman Ditch Ballard provided another story for that legendary river when he hooked a ...

A fisherman in England landed a 133-pound wels catfish at a catch-and-release pay lake in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, that apparently would qualify as a British record, and by a lot. The catch by Tomas ...

The enormous wels catfish two Polish fishermen landed a few weeks ago while competing in a fishing tournament at a reservoir in Rybnik, Poland, is being hailed as a world record for length. Krzysztof ...

A pro fisherman in Italy reeled in a massive wels catfish, which could set a new world record for length. Photo provided by MADCAT. An Italian angler could soon be a new world record holder after ...

Mark Steward-Brown of England went on a fishing vacation to the famous Ebro River in Spain two weeks ago and came away with a fish of a lifetime, catching a whopping 234-pound wels catfish on the ...

The catfish will then swallow the bird whole. This unusual behavior is not observed in Wels catfish populations elsewhere and is believed to be a learned adaptation. Due to limited food sources, the ...