The blue fulton is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to over one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's challenger for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 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 Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's largest catfish, was weighed at 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 an endangered species.

The river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The flattened head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow skin typifies the second biggest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish might survive nineteen years and more. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the favored attractant for catfish.