The great blue cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to above one hundred twenty pounds. Today's contender for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised for profit. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 shoveled head, of the yellow cat and the yellow color represents the second heaviest inland water catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish may live 19 years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the favorite attractant for catfish.