Jonny Bautz, Outdoor Writer

Ictalarus Furcatas, the blue catfish, is the largest of all sportfish in Ohio, and of all freshwater species in North America, only the alligator gar and a few species of sturgeon grow larger. With a voracious appetite and a wide mouth, blue catfish are absolute eating machines. They can grow three to six pounds per […]

When winter leaves north central Ohio and the land is cold, damp and still slumbering, the first sign of spring is the call of the Spring Peeper. After that the Red-winged Blackbirds start singing, the buds show up on the multiflora and the early blossoms appear. Soon enough spring is in full bloom and an […]

It’s late March and the ice has been off for a while. The next couple of months will be a flurry of fishing action with water temperatures on the rise from the mid-30s all the way into the 60s. As an avid catfish angler, I do not dedicate much time to the tastier species once […]