The blue is one of four most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to over 100 pounds. The current rival for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish grown for profit. 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.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also known 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 wedged head, of the yellow cat and the yellow skin represents the second biggest inland water catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These fish could live nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the favorite bait for catfish.