The blue is one of 4 of most familiar catfish, to fish for and grows to above 100 pounds. Today's competitor for the United States recordbook of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million lbs. of catfish raised commercially. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the age of dinosaurs.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646.2 lbs., captured 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 river catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The wedged head, of the catfish and the yellow color denotes the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The U.S. recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish might survive nineteen years and more. Virtually all varieties of catfish from clean water is very good dining.

Catfish Lure in the dough balls, subsidise dead minnows for the preferred bait for catfish.