The great blue cat is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to above 100 lbs.. Today's rival for the U.S. recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time of dinosaurs.

World's largest catfish, weighed 646 pounds, caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 shoveled head, of the appaluchion and the yellow color typifies the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish may survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the favorite attractant for catfish.