The great blue cat is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to above 120 lbs.. The current competition for the United States record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, captured 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 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 flathead catfish and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. These catfish might live 19 years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.