The blue catfish is the most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to above 100 lbs.. Today's rival for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish raised for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The wedged head, of the yellow cat and the yellow skin represents the second largest freshwater catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish could survive nineteen years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the favorite attractant for catfish.