The blue fulton is one of the most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to above one hundered pounds. The current contender for the American record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish farmed commercially. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The channel catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The shoveled head, of the opelousas and the yellow skin denotes the second biggest inland water catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These catfish could survive 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good table fare.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the favored attractant for catfish.