The blue catfish is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to over 100 pounds. The current contender for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically 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 appaluchion and the yellow skin denotes the second largest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish can live 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from running water is very good dining.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the preferred bait for catfish.