The great blue cat is one of the most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to over 100 pounds. Today's competition for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish raised commercially. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's largest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six lbs., caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, 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 yellow cat and the yellow skin typifies the second heaviest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. These fish might survive nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize dead minnows for the favorite lure for catfish.