The hump back blue is one of the most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to above one hundred twenty lbs.. The current rival for the United States recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs., caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant 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 shoveled head, of the opelousas and the yellow color denotes the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. Flathead catfish may live 19 years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise live bait for the preferred attractant for catfish.