The blue is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to over one hundered lbs.. Today's contender for the American recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646 pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is titled 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 flathead catfish and the yellow skin represents the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These catfish may live nineteen years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.