The blue fulton is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to over 100 pounds. The current contender for the American record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's heaviest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, 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 wedged head, of the opelousas and the yellow color denotes the second largest freshwater catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. Flathead catfish can survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

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