The blue is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to above 120 pounds. Today's challenger for the United States recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish farmed commercially. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically 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 appaluchion and the yellow color typifies the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish could survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.