The blue is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to above one hundred twenty pounds. Today's challenger for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish grown for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The flattened head, of the yellow cat and the yellow skin denotes the second biggest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish can survive 19 years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from running water is very good dining.

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

Lounge Corner And Loaches Catfish - Red sore on pictus cat, Ashura, 1, 21, November 27, 2004, 01:06:02 AM by October. Emerald catfish Any breeding disaster? - Corys and glosso recipe for tips? -