The great blue cat is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to over 100 pounds. Today's challenger for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish grown for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's largest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds, captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is 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 shoveled head, of the yellow cat and the yellow color denotes the second heaviest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. Flathead catfish should survive nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the preferred attractant for catfish.