The blue is the most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to over one hundred twenty lbs.. The current rival for the American record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically 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 goujon and the yellow color denotes the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish should survive 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from running water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the favored bait for catfish.