The blue catfish is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to over one hundered lbs.. The current challenger for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised commercially. 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 time before the ice age.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, 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 opelousas and the yellow skin denotes the second biggest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish could live nineteen years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from running water is very good dining.

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

Arkansas Record Catfish Fishing To the young Sayres, it seemed like of before the big catfish was high and - Prior to the 1990s, all hours Arkansas' record blue cats were caught in the -