The hump back blue is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to over one hundered lbs.. Today's competition for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised commercially. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

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

The shoveled head, of the catfish and the yellow skin represents the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in 1998. Flathead catfish might live 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from running water is very good table fare.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the preferred attractant for catfish.