The hump back blue is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to over one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's rival for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

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

The wedged head, of the johnnie cat and the yellow color represents the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish can live 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the preferred lure for catfish.