The blue is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to above one hundred twenty pounds. Today's competitor for the American recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish farmed commercially. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is also 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 wedged head, of the johnnie cat and the yellow skin represents the second heaviest inland water catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish can survive 19 years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.