The blue is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to over one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's contender for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 appaluchion and the yellow skin denotes the second largest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These fish can survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidise live bait for the favored bait for catfish.