The hump back blue is the most familiar catfish, to angle for and matures to over one hundered lbs.. Today's rival for the American record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 typifies the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish could survive nineteen years and more. Most varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Lure in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the favored bait for catfish.