The great blue cat is the most popular catfish, to angle for and develops to over one hundred twenty lbs.. Today's contender for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million pounds of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time of dinosaurs.

World's biggest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is also known as the Mekong Giant 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 goujon and the yellow skin typifies the second heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in 1998. These fish can survive 19 years and more. Most varieties of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

Catfish Bait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize live bait for the preferred lure for catfish.