The blue catfish is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to over one hundred twenty pounds. The current rival 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 pounds of catfish farmed for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646 pounds, captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

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

The shoveled head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow color typifies the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. Flathead catfish can live nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.

ATV Connection Forums - Catfish Record caught in Mississippi river - Early Sunday, Tim Pruitt caught a 124-pound is, catfish. To get a sense of just how big that blue the state record holder was a mere 85 pounds and the world -