The blue is one of the most popular catfish, to angle for and matures to above 100 pounds. Today's competitor for the American recordbook of 124 pounds is from the Alton Ill. Sunday May 22, 2005. There are 572 million lbs. of catfish farmed for profit. Recent , 6 28 2005, discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Mexico is the only known specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating to the time before the ice age.

World's biggest catfish, weighed 646 pounds, captured in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is also known as the Pangasianodon gigas 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 opelousas and the yellow color represents the 2nd largest freshwater catfish. The American recordbook is ninety eight and a half, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in Dec. 14, 1998. Flathead catfish should survive 19 years and longer. Virtually all varieties of catfish from fresh water is very good eating.

Catfish Stinkbait in the traditional stink bait, subsidize dead minnows for the favorite attractant for catfish.