The hump back blue is the most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to over 100 pounds. The current competition for the American record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish farmed commercially. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is also known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 wedged head, of the mud cat and the yellow skin represents the second largest freshwater catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These fish can live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.

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