The blue catfish is the most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to above one hundered lbs.. The current competition for the United States recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. The recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646.2 pounds, caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is also known 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 wedged head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow color denotes the second largest freshwater catfish. The United States record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish could live 19 years and more. Most species of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

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