The hump back blue is one of the most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to over 100 lbs.. Today's competitor for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish farmed for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

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

The shoveled head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow skin denotes the second biggest inland water catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These fish can live 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the favorite attractant for catfish.

Untitled Document - of Alton, Ill., holds a 124-pound blue catfish early Sunday morning, May week 2005, - Speaking of a giant catfish dive is scheduled for the 22, of the -