The great blue cat is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to over one hundered pounds. Today's competition for the United States recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

World's biggest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 yellow cat and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish could survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.