The blue is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to above one hundered lbs.. The current rival for the U.S. recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish farmed commercially. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

The river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The flattened head, of the mud cat and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These fish should live 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the favorite bait for catfish.

Mississippi Catfish Hotspots The state record blue catfish was landed by Carrol Pearson of Gunnison in the pounds. River near Rosedale in 1997 and weighed 93 Mississippi -