The blue catfish is the most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to above 100 lbs.. Today's challenger for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish farmed commercially. The 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 to the time before the ice age.

The World's largest catfish, weighed 646 pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is titled 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 shovelhead cat and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These catfish may survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the favored lure for catfish.