The great blue cat is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to over one hundered lbs.. The current competitor for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed commercially. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, 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 wedged head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow skin represents the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. Flathead catfish can live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the favored attractant for catfish.