The blue catfish is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to over 120 pounds. Today's rival for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is named 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 flattened head, of the johnnie cat and the yellow skin denotes the second largest inland water catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish can survive nineteen years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred lure for catfish.