The blue is one of four most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to over 100 lbs.. The current competitor for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish grown for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is named 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 flattened head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow color typifies the second largest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. Flathead catfish should live 19 years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the favored lure for catfish.