The blue catfish is the most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to above 120 pounds. Today's competitor for the United States recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish raised in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant 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 mud cat and the yellow color represents the second biggest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish may live nineteen years and more. Most varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good eating.

Catfish Lure in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.