The great blue cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to above one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's challenger for the U.S. record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish grown in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The shoveled head, of the opelousas and the yellow skin typifies the second heaviest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish could live 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the favorite bait for catfish.