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 ...

Monster weighs 206 pounds and measures 8 feet. Fishing on River Ebro, Bernie Campbell finally catches elusive albino wels catfish after 7 years of trying. For seven years, British fisherman Bernie ...

Europe's largest freshwater fish is a bottom-dwelling predator that goes by several names. Sometimes called soms, siluros, wellers, or sheetfish, these massive critters are the Old World's answer to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The team of Polish anglers caught the massive Wels catfish in Rybnik reservoir in southern Poland. A team of Polish anglers claims ...

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 ...

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 ...

An international research team led by scientists from Estonian University of Life Sciences has for the first time sequenced and assembled the genome of the wels catfish (Silurus glanis). The maximum ...

It was 3 o'clock in the morning when the wels catfish bit. Peter Neumann fought with the beast for a full hour before he finally released the hook from the enormous mouth and threw the fish back into ...

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 ...

British angler Bernie Campbell just fulfilled a seven-year goal of catching a rare albino wels catfish, but little did he dream that when he finally hooked one and landed it, he would also land a ...

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 ...