The hump back blue is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to above 100 lbs.. The current competitor for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is also known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The shoveled head, of the opelousas and the yellow color represents the second heaviest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in 1998. These catfish might survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.