The great blue cat is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to over one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's competitor for the United States recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish raised for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646 pounds, captured in the Chiang Khong Region,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 shovelhead cat and the yellow skin represents the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. These fish might survive 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the favorite bait for catfish.