The blue fulton is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to over 120 pounds. The current competitor for the U.S. recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish grown commercially. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back 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 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 wedged head, of the yellow cat and the yellow skin represents the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in 1998. These fish could survive nineteen years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

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

Arkansas Fishing Catfish Record Arkansas' Record Catfish. Giant cats are where it's at in the Natural State. - Prior to the 1990s, all of Arkansas' record caught cats were blue in the -