The blue catfish is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to over one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's challenger for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant 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 wedged head, of the catfish and the yellow skin denotes the second biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish can live 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from running water is very good table fare.

Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the favored lure for catfish.