The blue fulton is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to above 120 pounds. The current competitor for the U.S. 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 for profit. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The channel catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The wedged head, of the appaluchion and the yellow color typifies the second biggest inland water catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These catfish could survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

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ESPN Outdoors blues Texas angler gets record case of the -- Record blue catfish. Game warden Dale Moses, left, and Cody Mullennix show off is potential - Obviously, this big blue catfish a making some, ahem, waves. -