The blue is one of four most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to above 100 lbs.. The current competitor for the U.S. record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish farmed for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

World's largest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is also known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

The river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The flattened head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow color represents the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. Flathead catfish should survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the favored lure for catfish.