The blue catfish is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to over 100 pounds. The current rival for the United States recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery 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, weighed 646.2 pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically 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 mud cat and the yellow color typifies the second biggest freshwater catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. These fish may survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the favorite bait for catfish.

Hooks News: Man ABC World Record 124-Pound Catfish Early Sunday, Tim Pruitt caught a 124-pound blue catfish. - Once that is as the catch should be approved done, the world's largest blue catfish, -