The blue is one of the most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to over 100 pounds. The current competitor for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's largest catfish, weighed 646 pounds, captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

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

The flattened head, of the johnnie cat and the yellow skin denotes the second largest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These catfish could survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise live bait for the favorite lure for catfish.

Four Giant Catfish Released Into Mekong ~~ can 10 be feet long and - The Mekong can catfish, or Pangasianodon gigas, giant be found living wild - Man Hooks World Record 124-Pound Catfish (catfish on display in Cabela's fish -