The great blue cat is the most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to over one hundered lbs.. The current rival for the U.S. recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish raised in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's largest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

The river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The shoveled head, of the opelousas and the yellow color typifies the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. Flathead catfish could survive 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the favorite lure for catfish.