The blue fulton is one of the most familiar catfish, to angle for and grows to above one hundred twenty pounds. The current contender for the United States recordbook of 124 lbs. is from the Alton Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish farmed commercially. The recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specie of catfish of prehistoric origins dating to the time before the ice age.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds, captured in the Mekong River, Thailand, May 1,2005, and is named 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 shoveled head, of the mud cat and the yellow color typifies the 2nd biggest inland water catfish. The American record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine TX, in 1998. These fish could survive 19 years and longer. Most species of catfish from uncontaminated water is very good table fare.

Catfish Stinkbait in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the favored attractant for catfish.