The great blue cat is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to above 100 lbs.. The current rival for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish raised for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds, caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is named 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 wedged head, of the catfish and the yellow color typifies the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in 1998. Flathead catfish might survive 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good eating.

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