The hump back blue is the most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to over one hundred twenty lbs.. The current rival for the American record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish raised for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds, captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The flattened head, of the mud cat and the yellow color represents the second biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish can survive nineteen years and more. Most varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred lure for catfish.