The blue is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to over 100 pounds. The current competition for the U.S. 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 pounds of catfish grown for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant 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 flattened head, of the johnnie cat and the yellow color denotes the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish could survive nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

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