The blue catfish is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to over 100 pounds. Today's competition for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish raised in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

World's largest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is titled 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 flattened head, of the appaluchion and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish should live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from running water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred lure for catfish.