The blue is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to over one hundered pounds. The current rival for the U.S. record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant 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 wedged head, of the opelousas and the yellow color represents the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in 1998. These catfish could survive nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from running water is very good eating.

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