The blue fulton is one of the most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to over one hundred twenty lbs.. The current competitor for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646.2 lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as a critically endangered species.

The river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The flattened head, of the appaluchion and the yellow skin typifies the second biggest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These fish should live 19 years and longer. Virtually all species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the preferred lure for catfish.