The blue catfish is the most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to above 120 pounds. Today's competition for the U.S. recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish raised commercially. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646 pounds, captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The wedged head, of the mud cat and the yellow color denotes the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. These catfish may survive 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the favored lure for catfish.