The great blue cat is the most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to over 120 lbs.. Today's competitor for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish raised commercially. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically 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 mud cat and the yellow color typifies the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These catfish might survive 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

Catfish Lure in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the favored lure for catfish.