Fish
Channel Catfish
Ictalurus punctatus
Photo: Juan Chavez, CC BY 4.0
Common Names
White Catfish / Catfish
Habitat
Camp White Catfish
Conservation
Secure
First Observed
1804-07-24
Observed At
Near present-day Bellevue, Sarpy County, Nebraska
Common in rivers of central states. Corps’ ”White Catfish Camp” named for several large fish caught here, July 1804.
Journal References
10 journal entries mention Channel Catfish
Jul
23
1804
Clark: July 23, 1804
...ing on his left
breast. Wind from the N. W.
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Camp White Catfish 10 Miles above the Platt River Monday the 23rd of July
1804 A fair morning Set a party to look for...
Jul
24
1804
Clark: July 24, 1804
White Catfish Camp 24th of July Tuesday. a fair morning the wind rose with
the Sun & blows hard from the S. thos...
Jul
25
1804
Clark: July 25, 1804
White Catfish Camp 25th of July Wednesday. Several hunters Sent out. at 2
oClock the Two men Sent to the Otteaz ...
Jul
26
1804
Clark: July 26, 1804
Whit Catfish Camp 26th of July Thursday. the wind blew Verry hard all Day
from the South with Clouds of Sand wh...
Jul
27
1804
Clark: July 27, 1804
White Catfish Camp 10 ms above Platt 27th of July Friday, a Small Shower
of rain this morning, at 10 oClock Comm...
Jul
27
1804
Lewis: July 27, 1804
white Catfish Camp July 27th Friday, Charged the Boat and Perogue after a
Small Shower of rain, Completed our or...
Jul
29
1804
Clark: July 29, 1804
...and on the L. S. in a fiew minits Cought
three verry large Catfish (3) one nearly white, Those fish are in great
plenty on the Sides of the river and verry fat, a qu...
Jul
30
1804
Clark: July 30, 1804
...Drawing off my courses to
accompany the map Drawn at White Catfish Camp, Capt. Lewis and my Self
walked in the Prarie on the top of the Bluff and observed the most
...
Aug
12
1804
Clark: August 12, 1804
... are almost in Sight of the Mahar TownCought
a verry Large Catfish this morniong, prepared the Indian present which we
intend given to the Mahars. P. Wiser apt. Cook...
Sep
8
1806
Clark: September 8, 1806
...rs very well, and we arived at
our old encampment at White Catfish Camp 12 miles above the river platt at
which place we lay from the 22th to the 26th of July 1804 h...