The blue is the most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to above one hundered pounds. Today's competitor for the United States recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish grown 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 back to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is also known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 flattened head, of the johnnie cat and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish might survive 19 years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize dead minnows for the favorite lure for catfish.

Catfish Description - Channel mottled. closely resemble blue catfish. - Description - The sides are blue-gray to blue-black and may be catfish -