The blue is one of the most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to above one hundred twenty pounds. The current competitor for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. 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 before the ice age.

The World's largest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The channel catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The shoveled head, of the catfish and the yellow skin denotes the second largest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. These catfish should survive 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize live bait for the preferred lure for catfish.