The blue is one of four most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to over one hundred twenty pounds. Today's rival for the American recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish grown in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 lbs., caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named 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 wedged head, of the appaluchion and the yellow skin typifies the 2nd biggest freshwater catfish. The United States recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in Dec. 14, 1998. These fish can survive nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidise live bait for the favored bait for catfish.