The great blue cat is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to above one hundred twenty lbs.. The current rival for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish grown commercially. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

World's largest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds, captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 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 opelousas and the yellow skin typifies the second biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish might live 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

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