The blue catfish is the most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to above 120 pounds. The current rival for the American record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

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

The shoveled head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow skin denotes the second biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. These catfish could survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the favored lure for catfish.

Kat Masters Catfishing Club :: Whopper topic - A Real View - - It grows up to 660 pounds and nearly - the only known spawning grounds for giant catfish, villagers haven feeder: One Chinese dam is only about 124 miles upstream -