The hump back blue is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to over 100 lbs.. The current competition for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish grown for profit. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example 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., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is 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 flattened head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow color represents the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish might survive nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

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