The blue fulton is one of four most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to over one hundred twenty pounds. Today's contender for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specie of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is named 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 wedged head, of the opelousas and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The U.S. recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. Flathead catfish might survive 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.