Less than a week after a Missouri River angler broke the Iowa blue catfish record with a mammoth 105-pound, 60-inch monster, ...

Nebraska native George Thompson reeled in a record blue catfish on Oct. 12, breaking the record for the largest caught in ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says the behemoth fish was reeled in by George Thompson along the Missouri River in ...

After a 35-minute battle using only a rod and reel, George Thompson hauled in a behemoth 105-pound, 60-inch blue catfish on ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says George Thompson landed a monster after a 35-minute battle on rod and reel on ...

Unseasonably warm water temperatures have delayed eastern Iowa’s fall trout stocking, with hatchery officials holding off ...

The top fish is the common shovelnose sturgeon, the bottom fish is the endangered pallid sturgeon. (DNR photo by Mark Flammang) The Iowa DNR says a recent survey to document the population of a ...

Two federally endangered fish were found in the Des Moines River earlier this spring. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources recently announced that two pallid sturgeons were found this spring as ...

IOWA, USA — The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has documented the federally endangered pallid sturgeon in the Des Moines River for the first time. Biologists collected two of the rare fish this ...

Sturgeon are among the most endangered of fish, but the shovelnose species in the Rock River is thriving. Scientists from Midwest states are studying how to manage them.