The great blue cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to above 100 pounds. The current competitor for the U.S. recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish raised for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

The river 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 largest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These catfish should survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good eating.

Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidise live bait for the preferred attractant for catfish.