The blue fulton is the most popular catfish, to fish for and develops to above 120 pounds. The current rival for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish grown commercially. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

World's largest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is named 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 catfish and the yellow color represents the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. Flathead catfish may survive nineteen years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good table fare.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the favored lure for catfish.