The hump back blue is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to above 100 pounds. Today's competition for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. 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 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is named as the Mekong Giant 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 goujon and the yellow color typifies the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These catfish might survive 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred lure for catfish.