The blue fulton is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to over 100 lbs.. The current rival for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six lbs., caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named 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 appaluchion and the yellow skin represents the second biggest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish might survive nineteen years and more. Most varieties of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

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