The blue is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to over 100 lbs.. The current contender for the American recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown commercially. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery 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.

World's largest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is also known 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 shovelhead cat and the yellow color typifies the second biggest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. Flathead catfish may survive 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the favored bait for catfish.