The blue is the most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to over one hundered lbs.. Today's rival for the American recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's largest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 wedged head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish might live nineteen years and more. Most varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidise live bait for the favorite lure for catfish.