The blue fulton is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to over one hundred twenty lbs.. The current contender for the American recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish raised for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

The river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The shoveled head, of the opelousas and the yellow skin typifies the second biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish should survive 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the favored attractant for catfish.