The great blue cat is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to over one hundred twenty lbs.. The current challenger for the United States recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish farmed commercially. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant 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 flattened head, of the mud cat and the yellow color typifies the second largest freshwater catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish can live nineteen years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise live bait for the favorite bait for catfish.