The great blue cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to over one hundred twenty lbs.. The current competition for the United States recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish grown commercially. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The channel 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 typifies the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish might survive 19 years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the favorite attractant for catfish.