The blue is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to above 120 pounds. Today's challenger for the American record of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish grown commercially. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's heaviest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is 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 wedged head, of the mud cat and the yellow skin typifies the second largest inland water catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. Flathead catfish might survive 19 years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred lure for catfish.