The blue catfish is the most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to above one hundered lbs.. Today's competitor for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised commercially. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 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 wedged head, of the opelousas and the yellow skin typifies the second heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish could live 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.