Happy Fourth. Go catch a story. 🇺🇸
In a classic Field & Stream essay, Ted Leeson made the case that no fish better represents America than the humble bluegill—not because it’s flashy, but because it’s adaptable and willing to bite for just about anyone.
He argued panfish are
There’s a reason people still stop what they’re doing when David E. Petzal publishes. Yesterday’s comment section summed it up in five words:
“Never let him retire.”
Few places in North America offer fishing like this. This week's Field & Stream Fish Camp follows four days across two of the continent's most iconic fisheries, where every stop delivered.
Watch the full Fish Camp now on our YouTube channel. 🎣
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At 297 pounds, 9 ounces, this catfish missed 300 by less than a bag of ice.
Attila Zsedely caught it in Italy's River Po in 2010, and it has spent the last 16 years making that everyone else's problem.
Nobody has officially beaten it yet.
Looking at the picture, you can see
This policeman's 113-pound flathead just shattered a state catfish record.
Patrol Sgt. Joseph Driggers was fishing a 40-foot-deep back eddy on South Carolina's Pee Dee River when a giant flathead ate his Santee rig.
After a 15-minute fight, Driggers landed the fish and South
Bare hands and a willingness to get dragged around.
After bluegills let him down yesterday, Josh Jones decided to fish the old-fashioned way.
The result was a flathead pushing 60 pounds that took him for one hell of a ride before he finally got his hands locked around its jaw.
“I will truly never forget this,” says Maggie Jo Outdoors. 7.76 lbs, new PB, Sturgeon Bay. Smallie couldn’t resist the Rapala CrushCity Salted Net Roll.
