The blue catfish is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to above one hundered lbs.. Today's rival for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is titled 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 color denotes the second heaviest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. These fish may live 19 years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.

Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidize live bait for the favored attractant for catfish.