A commercial fisherman working on the Illinois River near Morris netted one of the largest bighead carp ever recorded on June 14. The giant carp weighed 109 pounds, according to the Illinois River ...

An angler from the UK caught a “proper lump” of a common carp on a recent trip to Hungary. Weighing 105.4 pounds, the obscenely fat carp stands to break a world record, according to the managers of ...

CHICAGOCHICAGO — Fears that giant, voracious species of carp will get into the Great Lakes and wipe out other fish have led to rising demands that the government close the waterway connecting the ...

A fisherman from the U.K. caught a massive carp that looked like an irregularly sized goldfish in a lake in France earlier this month. The bright orange fish weighed in at 67.4 lbs and was ...

CHICAGO – It's been referred to by scientists as a marine vacuum cleaner and it has made its way into the waterways of the Midwest. Now the race is on to keep this invasive fish out of the Great Lakes ...

Passion drives fisherman's quest for big fish, which he never eats. PARIS, Sept. 20, 2010— -- Frenchman Raphael Biagini is not your typical fisherman. At 30, he has a passion for big fish, very ...

After nearly four decades as a fishing guide on the Great Lakes, Pat Chrysler has seen enough damage from invasive species to fear what giant, ravenous Asian carp could do to the nation's largest ...

BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. (Gray News) - An angler in Maryland broke a record that stood for 44 years after catching a giant carp in the area of Chesapeake Bay. Logan Kurhmann, 24, snagged a common carp on ...

A young girl has caught an enormous carp with her bare hands in the shallows of Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota. Maddie Freese, an avid fisher at 11 years old, regularly participates in kids fishing ...