The blue catfish is one of four most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to above one hundered pounds. Today's competitor for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish farmed commercially. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically 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 goujon and the yellow skin denotes the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish may survive nineteen years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good eating.

Catfish Lure in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.