The blue is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to above one hundered lbs.. The current rival for the American record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also 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 shoveled head, of the appaluchion and the yellow color denotes the second heaviest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. Flathead catfish might live nineteen years and more. Most varieties of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.