The blue is one of four most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to above 120 pounds. The current rival for the American recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is known 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 shoveled head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow color represents the second heaviest inland water catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These fish could survive nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the preferred lure for catfish.

Missouri's Catfish Record The largest of pole-and-line Big Three species is the blue catfish. - The current our record for blue catfish, weighing an even 103 pounds, was caught in -