The great blue cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to over one hundered lbs.. The current competitor for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish raised commercially. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant 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 flathead catfish and the yellow color represents the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. Flathead catfish could survive 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

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The Lost Nomad: May 2005 World record 124 pound catfish caught - Tim Pruitt, of Alton, Ill., holds a 124-pound blue catfish early Sunday morning, May 22, 2005, that he hooked late -