The hump back blue is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to over 120 lbs.. Today's competitor for the American record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. The 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 age of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 flattened head, of the appaluchion and the yellow skin represents the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These fish can live nineteen years and more. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good table fare.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the preferred lure for catfish.