The blue catfish is one of the most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to over 100 lbs.. Today's contender for the U.S. record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish grown commercially. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

World's biggest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 appaluchion and the yellow color represents the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. Flathead catfish could survive 19 years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from running water is very good table fare.

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