The blue is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to over 100 lbs.. Today's rival for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish raised commercially. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.

World's largest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is titled 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 mud cat and the yellow color represents the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These catfish may survive 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize live bait for the favored lure for catfish.