The blue fulton is the most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to over 120 pounds. The current competitor for the American record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are five hundred seventy two million pounds of catfish farmed in commercial ponds. Recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only known example of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.

The World's heaviest catfish, was weighed at 646 lbs., caught in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 2005, and is titled as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The channel catfish grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The flattened head, of the goujon and the yellow color denotes the 2nd largest inland water catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. These catfish may 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 dead minnows for the preferred bait for catfish.