The blue is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to above 100 pounds. Today's contender for the U.S. record of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish raised in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is named 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 shoveled head, of the opelousas and the yellow color typifies the second largest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish could survive 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

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