The blue fulton is one of four most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to over one hundered lbs.. The current competition for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish raised for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646 pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is named 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 shoveled head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow color represents the second biggest inland water catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish could live 19 years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.

ESPN Outdoors -- Texas angler gets record of case the blues Record blue catfish. Game warden Dale Moses, left, and Cody Mullennix show off a potential ahem, Obviously, this big blue catfish is making some, - waves. -