The great blue cat is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to above one hundered lbs.. The current competition for the United States record of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds, captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, 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 wedged head, of the johnnie cat and the yellow skin denotes the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. Flathead catfish may survive nineteen years and more. Most varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise live bait for the preferred bait for catfish.