The blue is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to angle for and develops to above 100 lbs.. The current contender for the United States record of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish farmed commercially. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time before the ice age.

The World's biggest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is known as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The flattened head, of the mud cat and the yellow color denotes the 2nd heaviest freshwater catfish. The U.S. record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. Flathead catfish may survive 19 years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidise dead minnows for the favored lure for catfish.