The hump back blue is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and matures to above one hundered pounds. Today's competitor for the United States record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646 pounds, captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is also known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The spotted cat 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 largest freshwater catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. Flathead catfish could live 19 years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good eating.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidize live bait for the favored bait for catfish.