The hump back blue is the most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to over 100 pounds. The current challenger for the American recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish raised commercially. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646 pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known 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 wedged head, of the catfish and the yellow skin denotes the second biggest inland water catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish might survive nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good eating.

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