The blue is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to above one hundred twenty lbs.. The current rival for the American record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish grown for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named 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 appaluchion and the yellow skin represents the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. These fish can survive nineteen years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidise live bait for the preferred bait for catfish.