The great blue cat is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to above 100 lbs.. Today's competition for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish raised in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

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

The wedged head, of the goujon and the yellow color denotes the second largest freshwater catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These catfish can live nineteen years and more. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good eating.

Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize live bait for the favored bait for catfish.

EXOTIC FISHING: Strange and Unusual Fish pictures from around the - Exotic FISH Pictures. strange fish from around the size - Terry again landed the biggest Chao Praya catfish, a big world. 20.00 kg. -