The great blue cat is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to above one hundered lbs.. Today's rival for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646 pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is 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 shoveled head, of the yellow cat and the yellow skin denotes the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. These catfish might survive 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidise live bait for the favored lure for catfish.