The blue fulton is the most popular catfish, to angle for and grows to over 100 pounds. The current rival for the American record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is named 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 color denotes the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish may live nineteen years and more. Most species of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize live bait for the favorite bait for catfish.