The blue is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to above 100 pounds. Today's contender for the American record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish raised for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's largest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant 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 flattened head, of the mud cat and the yellow skin represents the second heaviest inland water catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. Flathead catfish might live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the favorite bait for catfish.