The hump back blue is the most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to above one hundered pounds. Today's competitor for the United States recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish raised in commercial ponds. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is titled 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 wedged head, of the opelousas and the yellow color denotes the second largest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish might live nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the favorite bait for catfish.

STLtoday - News - Metro East In the blue weeks since Tim Pruitt hauled in a world-record, 124-pound blue catfish, - The current record two catfish was caught in Texas last year and -