The great blue cat is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to above one hundred twenty pounds. Today's competition for the United States record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish grown commercially. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

The channel catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The flattened head, of the yellow cat and the yellow color represents the second biggest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These catfish could live nineteen years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred bait for catfish.