The blue fulton is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to above 120 pounds. The current contender for the American record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's largest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant 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 goujon and the yellow skin denotes the second biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These catfish could survive nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize live bait for the favorite attractant for catfish.

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