The hump back blue is one of four most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to over one hundered lbs.. The current rival for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically 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 flathead catfish and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish can live 19 years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

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