The blue fulton is the most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to over one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's rival for the American record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish grown commercially. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds, caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The wedged head, of the appaluchion and the yellow skin typifies the second largest inland water catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in 1998. These catfish should live 19 years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

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