The great blue cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to above one hundered pounds. Today's competition for the U.S. record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish farmed commercially. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The wedged head, of the goujon and the yellow skin represents the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. These catfish should survive nineteen years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred bait for catfish.