The blue is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to above 120 lbs.. The current competitor for the American record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's largest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is known 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 flattened head, of the mud cat and the yellow skin denotes the second heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. These fish can live 19 years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the favorite bait for catfish.