The great blue cat is one of four most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to over one hundered lbs.. Today's challenger for the American record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

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

The wedged head, of the mud cat and the yellow skin denotes the second largest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish can live 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the favored attractant for catfish.

Planet Catfish :: Shane's World :: Catfishology :: In Search of - The second giant is Pylodictis olivaris, the flathead catfish. in current world record, as of 1998, is a 123 pound monster caught The Kansas. -