The blue fulton is one of four most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to over 120 lbs.. Today's challenger for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646 pounds, caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is also known 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 color typifies the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish should survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the favorite lure for catfish.