The blue fulton is the most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to over 120 lbs.. The current challenger for the United States record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

The channel catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The wedged head, of the catfish and the yellow skin typifies the second biggest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These catfish might live nineteen years and more. Most species of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the favorite lure for catfish.