The blue is one of four most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to above 100 pounds. Today's challenger for the United States recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646 pounds, caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 flattened head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow skin typifies the second heaviest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish can live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.