The blue is one of four most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to above 100 lbs.. The current competitor for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The channel 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 second largest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. These fish can live 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the preferred lure for catfish.