The blue fulton is the most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to over 100 pounds. Today's contender for the American record of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time of dinosaurs.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., caught 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 river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The shoveled head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow skin typifies the second heaviest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in 1998. Flathead catfish should live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred lure for catfish.