The hump back blue is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to above one hundered lbs.. The current competitor for the United States recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Ill. 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 Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds, captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 opelousas and the yellow color represents the second heaviest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. These fish might live 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the preferred lure for catfish.