The great blue cat is the most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to above one hundered pounds. Today's rival for the American record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish farmed commercially. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is titled 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 mud cat and the yellow skin typifies the second biggest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish might survive nineteen years and more. Most species of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the favorite attractant for catfish.