The blue catfish is one of the most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to above 100 pounds. The current challenger for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish grown in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an 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 johnnie cat and the yellow color typifies the second largest inland water catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish should survive 19 years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from running water is very good eating.

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