Sunshine burning into placid brown water, so strong evaporation was almost visible, marked the term of trotline time with the Old Men. It left lessons in stillness that will never go away. The Old Men ...

Hauling up a blue cat on the White River. GLEN HEAVNER CAN THINK of a dozen ways to describe the Lower White River: the diamond of Arkansas, the land that time forgot, a state of mind, his favorite ...

Trotliner Burr Edde III of Malta Bend, became the most recent fishing record-holder when he caught a giant blue catfish from the Missouri River, according to the Missouri Department of Conservation.

The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation announced Tuesday that one of the biggest flathead catfish ever recorded in the state had been caught on a trotline. In the accompanying photo, ...

"When he wasn't chasing paint jobs, he was out on the lake fishing," Barber said. "He was one of those who always made sure he had the maximum number of trotline hooks in the water that the law would ...

Editor's note: James Fisher of Bella Vista and Randolph Stainer of Tulsa, Okla., are the two winners of the 2023 Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette fish story contest. Fisher is winner of the Readers ...

SHELBYVILLE -- I love this place. The air reeks of fish, and there is water just a stone's throw away. More importantly, the people here speak my language and share my passion for fat fish with big ...