The great blue cat is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to over 120 pounds. Today's challenger for the United States recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 flathead catfish and the yellow color denotes the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish should survive nineteen years and more. Virtually all species of catfish from fresh water is very good eating.

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