The blue catfish is one of the most popular catfish, to fish for and matures to above 120 pounds. The current contender for the U.S. record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown commercially. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., 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 shoveled head, of the goujon and the yellow skin represents the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in 1998. These catfish might survive 19 years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good eating.

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