The hump back blue is one of the most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to above 120 pounds. Today's rival for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is titled 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 flattened head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow skin typifies the second largest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. Flathead catfish could survive nineteen years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good dining.

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