The blue fulton is one of the most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to over 120 lbs.. The current rival for the U.S. recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish farmed commercially. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's largest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds, caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is titled 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 flattened head, of the catfish and the yellow color denotes the second largest inland water catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. Flathead catfish could survive nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize live bait for the preferred bait for catfish.