The blue fulton is the most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to above one hundered lbs.. The current competitor for the U.S. record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish raised for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also 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 yellow cat and the yellow color represents the second heaviest inland water catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. These catfish could survive 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidise live bait for the favorite bait for catfish.