The blue is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to above one hundered pounds. The current competitor for the American record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish raised commercially. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, 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 johnnie cat and the yellow color denotes the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish may live 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.