The hump back blue is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to above one hundered pounds. Today's contender for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish raised for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's largest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 shoveled head, of the yellow cat and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. These catfish may survive 19 years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

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