The blue catfish is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to above one hundred twenty lbs.. The current challenger for the United States record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time of dinosaurs.

World's largest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

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

The shoveled head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow skin represents the second biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish could live 19 years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

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