The blue fulton is one of 4 of most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to above one hundered lbs.. The current rival for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish raised for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, 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 color represents the second heaviest inland water catfish. The American record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These fish should live 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

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