The hump back blue is the most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to above 100 pounds. The current rival for the U.S. recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish grown in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

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

The wedged head, of the catfish and the yellow color typifies the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These fish could live nineteen years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

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