The hump back blue is one of four most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to above 100 pounds. Today's challenger for the United States recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million lbs. of catfish grown for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in 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 six hundred fourty six lbs., captured in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is also known 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 flattened head, of the johnnie cat and the yellow skin represents the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in December 1998. These catfish may live nineteen years and more. Most varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good dining.

Catfish Lure in the traditional stink bait, subsidize live bait for the favored lure for catfish.