The blue catfish is the most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to over one hundred twenty pounds. Today's competition for the American record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery 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.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically 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 goujon and the yellow skin represents the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. Flathead catfish could survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the favorite attractant for catfish.