The great blue cat is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to above 100 pounds. The current challenger for the U.S. record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, 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 channel catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The shoveled head, of the goujon and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. Flathead catfish can live 19 years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.