The great blue cat is one of the most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to above 120 lbs.. Today's competition for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish grown for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is also known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The shoveled head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow color typifies the second largest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. Flathead catfish should live nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred bait for catfish.

Maine`s kittery trading post. Weekly Report-. Fishing Fishing - - landed a . 58-inch-long and 44 inches around blue catfish. 124-pound - Don Ackerman, of Rock Springs, caught a 27.99-pound channel catfish in the -