The hump back blue is one of the most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to over one hundered lbs.. The current contender for the United States recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 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 catfish and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in 1998. Flathead catfish should live 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

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