The blue fulton is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to above one hundered lbs.. Today's contender for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six lbs., captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an 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 flathead catfish and the yellow skin represents the second largest freshwater catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. These fish might survive nineteen years and more. Most varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.

Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise live bait for the preferred attractant for catfish.