The blue fulton is the most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to above one hundred twenty lbs.. The current contender for the U.S. record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish grown for profit. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646 pounds, captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is named 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 shoveled head, of the catfish and the yellow color represents the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish could live 19 years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the favored bait for catfish.