The hump back blue is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to over one hundred twenty lbs.. The current challenger for the American record of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed commercially. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named 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 flattened head, of the mud cat and the yellow color denotes the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These fish may live nineteen years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.

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