The blue fulton is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to over one hundered lbs.. Today's competitor for the American record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish farmed commercially. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically 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 opelousas and the yellow color represents the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish can live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

Catfish Lure in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred bait for catfish.