The blue catfish is one of the most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to above one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's rival for the United States recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is named 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 shoveled head, of the appaluchion and the yellow skin typifies the second largest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These catfish may live 19 years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.

Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize live bait for the favorite bait for catfish.

Missouri's Catfish Record The current 1991. record for blue catfish, weighing an even 103 pounds, was caught in the Missouri River by Clarence Kerr of Fairfax in pole-and-line -