The hump back blue is one of four most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to above one hundered lbs.. The current challenger for the American record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is known 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 shoveled head, of the yellow cat and the yellow color denotes the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish might survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from running water is very good table fare.

Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize live bait for the favored bait for catfish.