The blue is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to over one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's competition for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish raised commercially. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds, 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 flattened head, of the johnnie cat and the yellow skin represents the second largest freshwater catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These catfish may survive 19 years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the favored attractant for catfish.