The hump back blue is the most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to above 120 lbs.. Today's contender for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish raised in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 appaluchion and the yellow skin represents the second largest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These catfish may live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidise live bait for the favored lure for catfish.