The blue fulton is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to above 100 pounds. Today's challenger for the U.S. record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. 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 back to the time before the ice age.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant 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 wedged head, of the opelousas and the yellow skin represents the second heaviest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. These fish should live nineteen years and more. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.