The blue catfish is one of four most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to over one hundered lbs.. The current contender for the American recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed commercially. The recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds, caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant 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 shoveled head, of the catfish and the yellow color denotes the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in December 1998. Flathead catfish should live nineteen years and longer. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good eating.

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

Caring pictures channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus with for Success with Your New Channel Ictalurus Aqualands inside info on Catfish punctatus - Two-inch baby albino channel cats with blue guy to the left. -