The great blue cat is the most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to over 100 lbs.. The current competition for the American record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's largest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The flattened head, of the mud cat and the yellow skin denotes the second heaviest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish can live nineteen years and more. Most species of catfish from running water is very good eating.

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