The great blue cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to above one hundered lbs.. Today's contender for the American record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's largest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds, caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant 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 flattened head, of the johnnie cat and the yellow skin represents the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish may live nineteen years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good dining.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.