The great blue cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to over 120 lbs.. Today's competitor for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish raised commercially. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs., caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

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

The shoveled head, of the goujon and the yellow skin represents the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. These catfish could survive nineteen years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from running water is very good eating.

Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.