The blue fulton is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to above 100 pounds. The current challenger for the U.S. record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646 pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant 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 wedged head, of the mud cat and the yellow skin denotes the second largest inland water catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. These catfish should live nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

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