The blue fulton is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to above one hundered pounds. The current rival for the American record of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically 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 mud cat and the yellow color typifies the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish should live nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

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