The blue is the most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to above one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's rival for the United States record of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is titled as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an 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 represents the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish should survive nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

Catfish Lure in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the favored attractant for catfish.