The blue fulton is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to above 100 lbs.. Today's rival for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish grown commercially. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's largest catfish, weighed 646 pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, 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 wedged head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow color denotes the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish may live nineteen years and more. Most varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

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