The hump back blue is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to above one hundred twenty lbs.. The current contender for the U.S. recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

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

The flattened head, of the appaluchion and the yellow color represents the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish might live 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.

CNN.com - Trying to save a catfish as big as - bear a Dec. 1, 2003 The Mekong giant catfish excess grow in can of 650 pounds and nearly 10 feet. - year to cave spirits to get their permission to catch the giant catfish. -