The blue catfish is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to over one hundred twenty pounds. Today's competitor for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish raised commercially. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, captured 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 flattened head, of the yellow cat and the yellow color represents the second largest freshwater catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. Flathead catfish should live nineteen years and more. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the favored lure for catfish.