The great blue cat is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to above one hundred twenty lbs.. The current contender for the American recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds, captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, 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 opelousas and the yellow skin represents the second biggest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These catfish might survive 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise live bait for the favored attractant for catfish.