The hump back blue is one of four most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to above 100 pounds. Today's competitor for the U.S. recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only 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 Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant 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 shoveled head, of the catfish and the yellow skin represents the second biggest freshwater catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These catfish could live nineteen years and more. Most varieties of catfish from running water is very good dining.

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