The hump back blue is the most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to above 120 pounds. The current rival for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's largest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an 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 shovelhead cat and the yellow skin denotes the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. These fish could survive nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the favored lure for catfish.