The blue catfish is one of four most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to above 120 lbs.. The current contender for the United States record of 124 pounds is from the Alton Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish raised commercially. 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 of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is titled 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 flattened head, of the flathead catfish and the yellow color represents the second largest inland water catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in December 1998. Flathead catfish should survive nineteen years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the favored attractant for catfish.