But the hoop net results required help from a strong team of summer staffers. “We’re getting up to 600 fish in a net with virtually zero mortality,” Liter said.

Hopkins dumps fish out of hoop nets during the catfish study. Photo by Flip Putthoff Channel catfish are stocked by Game and Fish at Lake Elmdale because they don’t spawn successfully.

Catch rates of channel catfish were similar to the long-term average of around 10 catfish per hoop net set. Stocked channel catfish were caught in large numbers one year after stocking, ...

They caught nearly two dozen smaller channel catfish as early evening turned to dark. ... 44-inch flathead from a hoop net in the Susquehanna less than a mile downriver of the Mason-Dixon line. ...

Catfish are especially important in benthic food webs in both the freshwater and estuarine sections of the St. Johns River. At one time, before the net ban, they were a major component of the ...

Justin Hall told the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission while he and his son were fishing in a farm pond near his Reidsville home, they reeled in the 27 lb. 7 oz. channel catfish.

The catfish range in size from 8 to 10 inches long. “Once stocked, they acclimate to their new environment quickly, they shouldn’t take long to start biting,” fisheries biologist Dave ...