The hump back blue is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to above 120 lbs.. The current challenger for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish raised for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age 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 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 shoveled head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow color represents the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. These catfish could live 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the favorite bait for catfish.