The hump back blue is one of the most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to above one hundered pounds. The current competitor for the U.S. recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish raised in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known 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 wedged head, of the yellow cat and the yellow skin denotes the second largest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish can survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from running water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.