The blue catfish is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to over 120 lbs.. Today's rival for the American record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six lbs., caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 mud cat and the yellow color represents the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. Flathead catfish can live 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

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