The blue is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to above 120 lbs.. The current contender for the U.S. record of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish grown for profit. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant Catfish, and is being studied as an 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 second largest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish can survive 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from running water is very good eating.

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