The hump back blue is the most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to over 120 pounds. The current competition for the U.S. record of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish raised for profit. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named 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 goujon and the yellow skin typifies the second biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These catfish might survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from running water is very good dining.

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

Fish whopper: 646 pounds a Environment record - freshwater - MSNBC.com Thai fishermen netted - catfish as big as a grizzly bear, setting a world a the 646-pound Mekong giant catfish for a project to protect large freshwater fish.