A fisherman caught a flathead catfish weighing a whopping 95 pounds ... Saleen Martin is a reporter on USA TODAY's NOW team. She is from Norfolk, Virginia – the 757. Follow her on Twitter ...
Kansas holds the United States record for a 123-pound flathead catfish caught at the Elk Reservoir nearly 30 years ago.
making it the largest exclusively freshwater fish ever recorded. Despite its gargantuan size, but also because of it, the giant catfish lives a tenuous existence in the murky waters of its native ...