The hump back blue is one of four most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to above one hundred twenty lbs.. The current challenger for the United States recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. 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 of dinosaurs.

The World's largest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is named 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 mud cat and the yellow skin denotes the second heaviest freshwater catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish might live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

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