The blue fulton is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to above one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's contender for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is also known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 flathead catfish and the yellow color represents the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. Flathead catfish can survive 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from running water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.