The blue catfish is one of four most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to over 100 pounds. Today's contender for the American recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish grown for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically 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 appaluchion and the yellow skin typifies the second biggest freshwater catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. These catfish might live 19 years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from running water is very good dining.

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