The great blue cat is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to over one hundered pounds. Today's competition for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 opelousas and the yellow skin denotes the second heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish can live 19 years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from running water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred lure for catfish.

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