The blue is one of the most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to over one hundred twenty pounds. Today's contender for the American recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant 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 johnnie cat and the yellow color represents the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. Flathead catfish should live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from running water is very good table fare.

Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the favorite bait for catfish.