The blue fulton is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to over one hundered lbs.. The current rival for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds, captured 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 flattened head, of the catfish and the yellow color represents the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. Flathead catfish should survive nineteen years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize live bait for the preferred lure for catfish.