The hump back blue is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to over 120 pounds. The current challenger for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish farmed commercially. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's biggest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant 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 catfish and the yellow skin denotes the second heaviest freshwater catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish should survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the preferred attractant for catfish.