Des Moines angler catches 53-pound catfish downtown

It was Friday the 13th, but it was local angler Benny Halder's lucky day. Driving the news: Halder was fishing along the Des Moines River downtown Friday and caught a nearly 53-pound flathead catfish — his dream catch for the season. "I'm figuring out what I want to do the rest of the summer," Halder says. How it started: Halder, an avid fisherman from Runnells, knew a storm front was moving in that evening, a time when fish tend to be more...