The hump back blue is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to above one hundered pounds. The current rival for the American record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 flattened head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow skin denotes the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These fish might survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize live bait for the favored lure for catfish.