The blue catfish is the most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to above 100 lbs.. The current competitor for the American record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant 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 shoveled head, of the goujon and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. These fish can live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the favored lure for catfish.