The great blue cat is the most familiar catfish, to fish for and develops to over one hundred twenty lbs.. The current rival for the United States record of one hundred tewnty four lbs. is from the Mississippi River in Illinois May 22, 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish raised commercially. The recent June 28, 2005 find of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only example of catfish of prehistoric origins dating back to the time of dinosaurs.

The World's largest catfish, was weighed at six hundred fourty six lbs., caught in the Chiang Khong Region,Thailand, May 2005, and is known as the Mekong Giant 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 flattened head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow skin typifies the second heaviest inland water catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Lake Palestine, Texas, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish can live nineteen years and more. Most species of catfish from running water is very good table fare.

Catfish Bait in the dough balls, subsidise live bait for the favored bait for catfish.