The great blue cat is the most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to above one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's rival for the United States recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is also known 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 flattened head, of the mud cat and the yellow color represents the second heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. These catfish may survive 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good eating.

Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise live bait for the preferred attractant for catfish.