The hump back blue is one of the most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to above 120 pounds. The current competition for the American record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish farmed commercially. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is named 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 wedged head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow color represents the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish might live 19 years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from running water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.