The great blue cat is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to above 120 pounds. Today's contender for the American recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds, caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The shoveled head, of the johnnie cat and the yellow color represents the second heaviest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These fish should survive nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise live bait for the favored lure for catfish.