The great blue cat is one of the most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to above one hundred twenty lbs.. The current competition for the United States record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's largest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant 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 yellow cat and the yellow color represents the second biggest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. These catfish can survive 19 years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.