The hump back blue is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to over one hundered pounds. Today's contender for the American recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age 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 named as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 color denotes the second biggest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish should live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.