The blue catfish is the most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to above one hundred twenty pounds. Today's challenger for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named 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 shoveled head, of the appaluchion and the yellow skin represents the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish might live nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from running water is very good dining.

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