The blue is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to above 100 pounds. The current competition for the American record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 find 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.

World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The flattened head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow color typifies the second largest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. Flathead catfish can live nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Bait in the secret formulas, subsidize live bait for the preferred attractant for catfish.